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 from 2012 to 2023, the nonprofit’s most recent figures.
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.
‘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, executive director of the conservative transparency nonprofit Americans for Public Trust, told the Daily Mail, referencing the $300,000 paid to Siebel Newsom and her firm.
The former Mad Men actress earned the fee creating a string of documentaries about gender, including Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In….
Daily Mail understands major donors to the event included AT&T, Comcast, and local philanthropist Roselyne Swig.
At past galas ‘VIP’ donors gave $25,000.
Ken McNeely, who had retired weeks before the gala as president of AT&T’s western region, was pictured at the event. He currently serves as board chair of Sutter Health.
McNeely has given $100,000 to support a redistricting campaign championed by Newsom.
Credit score agency FICO board director Joanna Rees gave a speech at the event. Seven months later she was appointed Chair of the California Workforce Development Board by Newsom.
Daily Mail has been unable to confirm whether those attendees donated at this gala, as the charity has not published individual donations.
Governor Newsom was fined $13,000 in November by California’s Fair Political Practices Commission for failing to timely report over $14.3 million of payments made by companies and organizations to nonprofits at his behest between 2019 and 2024.
The commission said it believed the late filings were ‘negligent’ rather than ‘an intent to conceal, deceive, mislead the public’.
‘As a career politician, Gavin Newsom should understand the importance of timely and accurate disclosures to the public,’ said Sutherland.
‘This is yet another red flag that raises serious questions about Gavin Newsom’s competence and accountability.’
Democrats are fraudsters. They use tax money to benefit themselves and their cronies.
Our royal couple are deserving of more. Look at how smart he is! They denounce the Republicans’ war on women by dismembering 10’s of thousands of baby girls and violating their mothers. It’s genius. Most Californians are smart enough to buy it. Let’s hope the rest of the nation is as enlightened. We need to get another devout Catholic back in the White House. He has the tacit support of Catholic bishops and priests. Otherwise, they would say something (and they could, since Gav hasn’t yet officially announced his run to save our nation and is not yet a candidate. Wink, wink.) Please send us money to help the cause. Forget almsgiving. The government will take care of the poor. Look at the outstanding job we’ve done in the War on Poverty, since Democrat President LBJ declared it more than sixty years ago. You can hardly find a poor person on Martha’s Vineyard or in Bev Hills or Palm Beach.
He is not black enough, he is not female enough, he is not homosexual enough, and he is not transgender enough to represent the Democratic party. They need to find someone else. He fails on multiple counts.
What if he identifies as a woman? Or a Black trapped in a White non-binary body? What if he comes out as a bisexual Muslim socialist?
He’d carry California, Massachusetts, DC and the swing state of Michigan for sure. And,he should ditch his superficial Catholicism. That brand is past its prime. He should talk about how he is spiritual and not religious. People like that. And, if he’s OCD and needs a religion; Unitarianism, pantheism, Rastafarianism, Communism or vegetarianism would be better choices in order to secure the Dem nomination. After that, he should go back to pretending he’s a moderate. Then, he’ll beat the hillbilly or any of those Southerners who run.
This is because Gavin Newsom’s mismanagement of a once beautiful State to travel to. After years of traveling to California for pleasure, business I now avoid it like the plague. Many of my friends and clients already moved out. Thanks to Gavin Newsom. Worst California governor in history. He is just too stupid to realize what he has done.
Always refreshing to have the First Bimbo put in her two cents.