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FROM THE CLAREMONT WEBSITE:

https://dc.claremont.org/blm-funding-database/

Explanatory Notes:

* The BLM Funding Database contains pledges and contributions from 2020-present. In eight instances, pledges or contributions made prior to 2020 are included because (1) contributors touted them in their 2020 racial equity statements, or (2) they were partially fulfilled between 2020-present. These exceptions amount to less than $330M in pledges and contributions and are noted in the details of the contributors.

* The “BLM Movement” is composed of the BLM parent organizations (BLMGNF and M4BL), the BLM Foundation (a separate, BLM-aligned organization that some contributors confused for BLMGNF), BLM Grassroots, independent BLM chapters (the BLM10+, etc.), BLM PAC, the fiscal sponsors of BLM organizations (including AfGJ, Thousand Currents, the Common Counsel Foundation, and the Tides Center), BLM At School, BLM partners such as the NAACP (a partner of BLMGNF) and the ACLU (a partner of BLM DC), and the more than 150 member organizations of M4BL. “Related Causes” are organizations and initiatives that advance one or more aspects of BLM’s agenda.

* The topline dollar amount is generated using contributor data – not recipient data – because the precise dollar amounts contributed to individual recipients often remain unknown. This means that when the data is sorted by recipient(s), the topline dollar amount generated represents all of the contributions made by the relevant contributors rather than only those contributions made to the selected recipient(s).

* A blank entry in the BLM Movement & Related Causes column indicates that the amount pledged or contributed is unknown.

* The Follow-through column indicates whether or not contributors have made good on their pledges.

— “Yes” indicates that a contributor took at least some action to fulfill pledges.

— “Unknown” indicates that no evidence could be found to ascertain whether or not pledges were acted on.

* While not verbatim, the Details column embodies the language contributors used to describe their contributions.

* There is a small amount of redundancy inherent to the database, but we believe that, in the final analysis, total contributions to BLM remain underreported.