• What Happened: IRS filings confirm Jennifer Siebel Newsom has paid herself and her for-profit firm Girls Club LLC a combined $300,000 annually from her nonprofit The Representation Project, totaling over $3.7 million across the past decade.
  • Why It Matters: That $300,000 represents nearly one third of the charity's entire annual income. The median executive salary at nonprofits of this size is $31,945. She earns almost ten times that.
  • Bottom Line: The same woman who scolded reporters for not caring enough about the "war on women" has been running a gender justice charity that funnels a third of its donations straight back to her.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom wants you to know she cares deeply about gender justice. IRS filings suggest she cares even more about the paycheck.

The Daily Mail obtained and reviewed financial records showing that Siebel Newsom, wife of California Governor and likely 2028 presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom, has paid herself and her for-profit production company Girls Club LLC a combined $300,000 every year from The Representation Project, a nonprofit she founded in 2011 to combat what she calls "intersectional gender stereotypes" and "harmful gender norms." Over roughly the past decade, those combined payments total more than $3.7 million.

The math is not complicated. The Representation Project brings in between $1 million and $1.7 million annually in grants and donations. In the fiscal year ending March 2024, the charity reported $1,704,981 in gross receipts. Siebel Newsom and her LLC took $300,000 of that, nearly one third of every dollar donated to the cause.

She earns $150,000 as the charity's annual salary and another $150,000 flows to Girls Club LLC, listed in IRS filings as a "writer/director/producer fee" for licensing her documentaries Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In to her own nonprofit. Her LLC owns the copyrights. Her nonprofit pays the licensing fees. The money goes to her company. She controls both.

A Daily Mail analysis of the IRS nonprofit database found approximately 23,000 charities nationwide with revenues between $1 million and $2 million. Fewer than 5 percent pay their executives as much as Siebel Newsom collects when her salary and LLC payments are combined. The median executive salary at a nonprofit of this size is $31,945. She takes home nearly ten times that figure.

The financial arrangement does not exist in isolation. The Representation Project has received donations from some of California's biggest corporate players, many of whom simultaneously benefited from hundreds of millions in state taxpayer funds. PG&E donated $358,000 to the charity between 2011 and 2018 and received $323.8 million from California in 2021. Kaiser Permanente donated $20,000 and received $172.2 million from the state. Comcast donated $15,000 and received $20.6 million. Governor Newsom was separately fined $13,000 last November by the California Fair Political Practices Commission for failing to timely report over $14.3 million in payments made by companies and organizations to nonprofits at his direction between 2019 and 2024.

Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told the Daily Mail directly: "As he 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."

Last month, Siebel Newsom stepped in front of cameras at her husband's Planned Parenthood press conference to scold female reporters for not asking enough questions about the "war on women."

One third of her charity's income goes to her and her company. The war on women has been very good to Jennifer Siebel Newsom.