Patrisse Cullors is one of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement. The nonprofit also pushed $1.8 million to individuals with close ties to Cullors, who stepped away from the group last year.īLACK LIVES MATTER HAS NEARLY $42 MILLION IN ASSETS: IRS DOCUMENTS The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation dished out nearly $4 million in consulting payments to its board secretary, co-founder Patrisse Cullors' brother, and the father of Cullors' child.īLM Global Network, the movement's primary nonprofit, paid $2.1 million to Bowers Consulting, a firm run by Shalomyah Bowers, the foundation's board secretary, between July 2020 and June 2021, according to tax forms the BLM Global Network Foundation provided to the Associated Press.