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Gov. Newsom’s wife collected $3.7 million from gender nonprofit

March 9, 2026

Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Gavin Newsom

By JOSH FRIEDMAN

California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, along with her LLC, has collected a combined $3.7 million over the last decade from a nonprofit activist organization she founded. Corporations that receive millions of dollars from the California taxpayer are behind hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to the nonprofit that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife runs. [Daily Mail]

Siebel Newsom created a string of documentaries about gender, including Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In. Her nonprofit, The Representation Project, promotes her documentaries and engages in activism battling “intersectional gender stereotypes” and “harmful gender norms.”

The nonprofit brings in between $1 million and $1.7 million a year in grants and donations, from which about $300,000 has been going directly to Siebel Newsom and her company. 

The most recent IRS filings up to March 2024 show Siebel Newsom received a $150,000 salary from The Representation Project. Her company, Girls Club LLC, received another $150,000 from The Representation Project.

Siebel Newsom and her nonprofit colleagues earn above 95% more than workers at similarly sized nonprofits, according to an analysis conducted by the Daily Mail.

There are about 23,000 charities in the IRS database of nonprofits with revenues between $1 million and $2 million. The salary for the median executive at a nonprofit the size of Siebel Newsom’s is $31,945.

In 2023-2024, Siebel Newsom and her LLC received $300,000 out of the $1,704,981 gross receipts. That year, The Representation Project paid a total of nearly $1 million in compensation and spent $153,691 on fundraising.

Including the money paid to Siebel Newsom and her LLC, the nonprofit paid a total of $581,942 to its executives in 2023-2024. By comparison, the median nonprofit of similar size paid its executives a total of $132,640, or less than a quarter of The Representation Project’s total executive pay.

IRS filings show the $150,000 paid annually to Sibiel Newsom’s Girls Club LLC is for a writer/director/producer fee. Girls Club LLC owns the copyright to Siebel Newsom’s documentary Miss Representation and has licensed the film to The Representation Project for a minimum seven-year period to provide distribution rights and public performance rights to screening hosts, according to the nonprofit’s latest filing.

Siebel Newsom may not bank all the funds that her nonprofit pays her LLC, as the company may have overhead and production costs.

The most recent filings for Siebel Newsom’s nonprofit show it spent $216,274 on its annual gala ‘Flip the Script’ in 2023, and The Representation Project earned $598,948 from the event.

Critics have raised numerous ethics questions over the hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to the nonprofit by companies that later received millions of dollars in California taxpayer funds.

AT&T donated $185,000 to The Representation Project from 2017 through 2020. The telecom firm received $260.4 million from the state of California in 2021. AT&T also contributed $100,000 to Gov. Newsom’s inauguration fund in 2019.

Comcast donated $15,000 to The Representation Project over the same period and received $20.6 million from California. Kaiser Permanente donated $20,000 to Siebel Newsom’s nonprofit in 2018 and 2019 and received $172.2 million from the state.

Additionally, PG&E, via its corporate foundation, donated $358,000 to Siebel Newsom’s nonprofit between 2011 and 2018. PG&E received $323.8 million from the state in 2021. A couple years prior, amid the fallout over PG&E’s ties to California wildfires, the Recreation Project said it would no longer accept donations from the utility.

Last November, the California Fair Political Practices Commission fined Gov. Newsom $13,000 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.

 


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Her very wealthy father fled the state before Big Gav took over… Like rats fleeing the sinking ship


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The Newsoms are just horrible people. Scott Adams, if alive today, would advise, “Just stay away from the Newsoms, far away”.


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Iran war costs a billion dollars a day.


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Ok, well what was your plan to eliminate the emerging threat of that demonic, totalitarian regime that chants “death to America” getting nuclear weapons? A regime that murders and tortures thousands of it own people for not towing a hard sharia line? Who cares how much it costs. Go look at some old pics of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and tell me how much is it worth to avoid that. Also, fat man and little boy were minuscule by today’s standards. Go on, answer the question, how would you handle this situation?


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And Trumps income INCREASED by $4 billion last year.

You and I are paying more for everything to help him get richer. Including $1.50 more a gallon the last month as unwilling accomplice’s thinking we will forget about the Epstein files.

As for this weighted and slanted article, Newsome’s are three billion nine hundred ninety-six million six hundred thousand dollars behind the Trumps thievery.

Will there be a balanced article?

How bad will things get before you wake up?

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/donald-j-trump-pays-court-ordered-2-million-illegally-using-trump-foundation


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“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” -Ronald Reagan, 1964


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As a fellow republican I feel your pain. Trump is taking down our party. The people that wont let go are taking it down with him.

He is not a politician. He got us to a majority but he is tanking it.The Epstein cover up and this war is the nail in the coffin. People should have stood up to him before this meltdown.


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Republican my a..! LOL!


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The Clinton Foundation- Lite


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This is ridiculous “reporting” with little to no context. According to HUD, a person who earns $121K to $135K is consider Low Income, in California Cities like the Bay Area.


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Am issue created solely under the one party Commiecrats of California.


#NEVERVoteDemoNcratAgain


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For context, consider that Melania Trump recently pocketed $28 million from her movie. Amazon spent $75 million on the project, paying the Trump’s $40 million for the rights. Melania simply went about her business while they filmed. The movie has made just $16 million since its premiere and is considered a “bomb.” At least Newsom’s work had a goal and was not simply extorting money from a company that needed the Trump administration’s approval on regulatory issues. Obviously Newsom is quite the amateur “grifter” compared to the Trumps.


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Meanwhile, just breaking. Legit news because it involves #’s. Not just an opinion.

Keep enabling.

 “The Pentagon went on an epic spending spree in September 2025 by burning through $93 billion … the most at the end of a fiscal year since 2008 … all part of the federal government’s use-it-or-lose-it budget.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pete-hegseth-blew-billions-fruit-215814027.html


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Oh, like lucrative (undeserved) book deals for Killary, Bill and Brandon. Then Netfll

uX riches for Barry Soetoro and big MIKE.


You Libocrats have ZERO self-awareness. ZEER-OH!


#NEVERVoteDemoNcratAgain


Californians Against DemoNcrats!


#VoteRepublican2026

For a needed SUPER MAJORITY to allow for 47’s E.O.’s to be codified into law for a SAFER and stronger America.


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Books by both Clintons, both Obamas and Biden have been huge bestsellers, making their publishers millions. In contrast, Ms. Trump’s movie lost Amazon about $58 million. Bezos needs Trump to approve his massive move toward data centers and the transition to automated delivery trucks. Both moves will render thousands of workers out of a job. Already under Trump, we’ve lost 100,000 manufacturing jobs and job growth overall has been going in the wrong direction.


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And Chelsea was hired for $600K out of college, for a job she has less than zero knowledge of, and even less experience at. But, her name was Clinton…


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Adam T.- you are the walking, talking, absolutely #1 best example of:


“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”


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Rather than just insulting me, why don’t you provide evidence that proves my facts are wrong. Respectfully, I think you’ll have trouble doing that because everything I’ve written is most definitely factual. I think if you look it up, you’ll find I’m right. You can disagree with my political bias, but you cannot deny the facts.


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He and his ilk have ZERO self-awareness on that matter. Their generational aloofness is laughably embarrassing to American Patriots.


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Let them eat cake.


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Grifter


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And this surprises anyone….?

Newsom and is wife have shown, over and over again, that they are above everyone else. French Laundry was just saying the quiet part out loud, they detest the average person. To them, the rest of us are like ants in an ant farm. And like a spoiled brat who loses interest, the ants can make it or not. These two don’t care. And for those whose anti-Trump responses are as autonomic as respiration and circulation, let’s stipulate that every criticism you have of Trump is valid. With that said, defend Newsom with facts, evidence, and logic. Show your work. The guy really is Zoolander, but without any inherent decency like the character in the movie. A lifetime of grasping self promotion, devoid of integrity. And millions of Democrat drones will vote for him unthinkingly, uncritically, and with a tragic, self-flagellating joy in their hearts. We are done if this guy ever becomes President.


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