Gavin Newsom's wife and her firm pocketed $3.7M from her 'gender stereotypes' charity

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom stole the spotlight at her husband's Planned Parenthood press conference last month when she scolded reporters for not asking enough about the 'war on women'. But now, financial filings obtained by the Daily Mail suggest the First Partner of California may have to answer some tough questions of her own.

IRS documents from recent years show Gavin Newsom's wife has been paying herself and her company, Girls Club LLC, up to a third of her nonprofit's entire income each year – pocketing over $3.7 million over the past decade. Siebel Newsom, 51, runs the Representation Project, a charity that fights against 'intersectional gender stereotypes' and 'harmful gender norms'.

The organization brings in between $1 million and $1.7 million a year in grants and donations, with roughly $300,000 of it going straight to her and her company in recent years, according to financial records.

The most recent IRS filings up to March 2024 show Siebel Newsom, who's also the beneficiary of a multi-million-dollar trust from her wealthy family, receives a $150,000 annual salary from the Representation Project, and her company took another $150,000 from the charity's funds.

Her unusually high compensation to her and her company has recently sparked criticism from charity watchdogs - with a Daily Mail analysis showing Siebel Newsom and her nonprofit colleagues earn more than 95% of charities of a similar size.

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There are around 23,000 charities in the US with revenues between $1 million and $2 million, in the IRS database of nonprofits. Fewer than 5% of them pay their executives more than the Representation Project, if Siebel Newsom's salary and pay to her company is included, an analysis by the Daily Mail shows.

The salary for the median executive at a nonprofit that size is just $31,945, according to figures from the IRS database. Siebel Newsom and her company earned almost ten times that.

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