by Logan Washburn at the Federalist
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative deleted hundreds of grants from its website after being called out for funding leftist priorities.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation hid past grants to leftist causes after its funding of lawfare groups opposing President Donald Trump surfaced.
When Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon’s War Room, posted that Zuckerberg gave nearly $2 billion to the leftist Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) — which bankrolls the anti-Trump legal group Protect Democracy — the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative’s website listed more than 5,000 grants, many to leftist groups, from 2018 to June 2024. Soon after — on Feb. 14 — Zuckerberg’s foundation scrubbed its website, only listing 680 grants “from January 2024.”
https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/1891472657343758695
The New York Times ran a hit piece trying to debunk Winters, citing Zuckerberg’s spokesman, who said that “neither Mr. Zuckerberg nor his wife, nor their joint philanthropic organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, had ever made a donation to Protect Democracy.” Never mind the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Zuckerberg donated $1.75 billion in Facebook stocks to SVCF in 2010, according to InfluenceWatch, and another donation of $200 million in 2018 — amounting to $1.95 billion total. The SVCF uses “donor-advised fund[s],” through which donors can “advise how their gifts are distributed.” The New York Times seized on this, saying Zuckerberg’s account “does not mean that he actually donated any funds to Protect Democracy.” But according to InfluenceWatch, SVCF’s assets skyrocketed from more than $5.3 billion to $13.5 billion in 2017 — likely due to “the appreciation of SVCF investments, which include potentially 36 million Facebook shares, donated by founder Mark Zuckerberg.”
Documents from 2021 to 2023 show SVCF gave…
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