According to Buzzfeed News, the Black Lives Matter Foundation received millions of dollars in donations on behalf of the movement but is … somehow not at all affiliated with the BLM movement.
“The Black Lives Matter Foundation, a Santa Clarita, California–based charitable organization that has one paid employee and lists a UPS store as its address, has a very different goal, according to its founder: ‘bringing the community and police closer together,'” Buzzfeed states, noting that “In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, corporations including Apple, Google, and Microsoft raised $4 million for the soundalike foundation — and almost delivered the money.
Black Lives Matter Foundation founder Robert Ray Barnes tells the site, “I don’t have anything to do with the Black Lives Matter Global Network.
A spokesperson for the Black Lives Matter organization everyone intended to support also told Buzzfeed that Barnes’ foundation has nothing to do with them.
“I had plenty of motivation to create the Black Lives Matter Foundation and the people who were doing Black Lives Matter weren’t interested in a foundation.