According to Aaron Klein at Breitbart, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic foundations in the U.S., has provided at least $930,000 in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The financing, listed on the Foundation’s website, includes a June 1, 2016 grant to the International Development Exchange, which is contracted with Black Lives Matter to process donations for the group.
The Associated Press reported that the International Development Exchange, also known as IDEX, “has been acting as a mostly unseen financial arm of Black Lives Matter, with the ability to receive grants and tax-deductible donations on the group’s behalf.”
“More recently, the relationship evolved into a contractual partnership that will run through at least mid-2017,” the AP reported.
According to the Foundation’s website, the purpose of the $900,000 grant was to:
Enhance local and place-specific interventions to address issues impacting the lives of Black community members, families and children by building the infrastructure and capacity of the national #BlackLivesMatter to support and strengthen their local chapters’ organizing capacity.
On June 1, 2015, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation provided $30,000 to the Praxis Project, Inc. to support, according to the charity’s website, “the inaugural BlackLivesMatter Chapter Retreat.”
The foundation’s website relates some of the strong ties between the charity and the Kellogg Company, both based in Battle Creek, Michigan. Last Tuesday, the Kellogg Company announced that it was pulling ads from Breitbart.com because the news site is not “aligned with our values as a company.” In retaliation, Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow launched a #DumpKelloggs petition and called upon the site's 45,000,000 monthly readers to boycott Kelloggs products:
Breitbart News is the largest platform for pro-family content anywhere on the Internet. We are fearless advocates for traditional American values, perhaps most important among them is freedom of speech, or our motto “more voices, not less.” For Kellogg’s, an American brand, to blacklist Breitbart News in order to placate left-wing totalitarians is a disgraceful act of cowardice. They insult our incredibly diverse staff and spit in the face of our 45,000,000 highly engaged, highly perceptive, highly loyal readers, many of whom are Kellogg’s customers. Boycotting Breitbart News for presenting mainstream American ideas is an act of discrimination and intense prejudice. If you serve Kellogg’s products to your family, you are serving up bigotry at your breakfast table.
