California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is catching heavy criticism after financial filings revealed that she paid herself a whopping $3.7 million from her so-called “gender stereotypes” charity, just a month after she went off on reporters for not asking enough questions about the “war on women.” The comments were originally made during her husband’s Planned Parenthood press conference a month ago.
Documents uncovered by the IRS in recent years reveal that Mrs. Newsom has been generously paying herself and her company, Girls Club LLC, almost a third of her nonprofit organization’s total income for the year, pocketing $3.7 million over the last ten years. Siebel Newsom, 51, heads up the Representation Project, a charity whose mission is to fight back against “intersectional gender stereotypes” and “harmful gender norms.”
The organization brings in between $1 million to $1.7 million a year through grants and donations. A total of $300,000 of that money ends up in her and her company’s pockets. The most recent tax filing, which is dated 2024, shows Siebel Newsom, who is also the beneficiary on a rather robust, multi-million-dollar trust fund from her loaded family, gets a $150,000 a year salary from the nonprofit.
According to the Daily Mail, her company also took $150,000 of the charity’s funding. The unusually high salary has led to criticism from charity watchdogs who pointed out that Siebel Newsom and her colleagues are earning more than 95% of charities of a similar size. “As [Governor Newsom] continues his national rebrand tour, the fact that he and his wife put one third of their ‘charity’ revenues into their own pockets will undoubtedly raise red flags in the eyes of middle class Americans,” Caitlin Sutherland, who serves as the executive director of conservative transparency nonprofit Americans for Public Trust, told the outlet.
The report also revealed that there are 23,000 charities in the United States with revenues of $1 million and $2 million, according to the IRS database. Less than 5% of them pay their executives more than the Representation Project. The average an executive makes at a nonprofit of a similar size is only $31,945. This means that Siebel Newsom and her company are making about ten times that figure.
In the accounting year ending March 2021, Siebel Newsom’s charity reported bringing in $1,082,077 from donations and grants, before paying any expenses, and then paid out close to $300,000 to Siebel and her company. That is 28% of their total funding for that year. The following year, Siebel Newsom gave herself and her company a hefty payday of $302,500 from the charity’s gross of $1,051,939.
The Representation Project’s most recent filing, for the fiscal year ending in March 2024, shows a total of $300,000 paid out to Siebel Newsom and her company out of a total gross of $1,704,981. The total bill for the charity’s compensation during that year fell just under a million.
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In order to raise funds, it only spent $153,691 of that money, meaning a huge chunk of it is going directly into Siebel Newsom’s pocket. Gov. Newsom is required by law to report his wife’s income during an annual ethics filing, however, those records reveal he only noted her income being between $10,000 and $100,000 from the Representation Project.
Watch a member of Congress expose and explain the massive amount of fraud in California here: