More Hard to Ignore Unexplained and Highly Suspicious Financial Machinations Involving Robert Ross of the “The California Endowment” and CaliforniaALL’s Freada Kapor of Level Playing Institute (TLR Note – YR: Myriad Legal Proceedings “Unavoidable”)
The California Endowment – a private health foundation created after the conversion of BlueCross of California to a for-profit company that provides grants to community based organizations throughout California is now under vast and intense scrutiny for sham grants bestowed on San Francisco-based Level Playing Field Institute (“LPFI”) headed by Freada Klein Kapor of sham non-profit entity CaliforniaALL.
Specifically, despite the claim by “The California Endowment” (headed by proxy Robert Ross) that it only “makes grants to nonprofit organizations, tribal governments and public agencies that directly benefit the health and well-being of Californians. To apply for a grant, applicant organizations or their fiscal sponsor must generally have valid tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and be classified as a public charity—not as a “private foundation” under section 509(a). (See @: ►http://www.calendow.org/about/overview.aspx)
The California Endowment, nevertheless, awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to Level Playing Field Institute — an entity, allegedly, “committed to eliminating the barriers faced by underrepresented people of color in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.” See WWW.LPFI.ORG
For example, in fiscal year 2010 The California Endowmnet awarded between $50,000 – $100,000 to LPFI. See ►http://www.lpfi.org/sites/default/files/lpfi_2010_annual_report_-_the_proof_p…
Level Playing Field Institute (“LPFI”) founded in 2001 by Freada Klein Kapor to encourage kids to pursue careers in the fields commonly know as STEM — science, technology, engineering and math.
Separately, as was reported earlier, The California Endowment and proxy Robert Ross are also under scrutiny in connection with hundredrs of thousands of dollars funneled to operative Donna Lucas of Lucas Public Affairs.
As mentioned earlier, this comes at a time when CaliforniaALL former director Freada Kapor, husband Mitchell Kapor, Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich, Ambassador John Roos, United States Department of Justice’s Tony West and California Attorney General Kamala Harris are under scrutiny regarding the massive financial scheme involving the alleged laundering of funds from utility companies through the California Bar Foundation/ CaliforniaALL to OBAMA FOR AMERICA and for various other related acts of fraud and deceit, a recent discovery of hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable expenses further calls the Kapors’ business ethics into question.