Anyone wanting to visit Black Lives Matter‘s headquarters will be in for a disappointment.
The nonprofit organization listed a nonexistent address on its 2019 IRS 990 form, and a visit to the similarly named address listed on a credit monitoring report (which has the same street number but a different spelling for the street and the wrong ZIP code) came up empty.
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“Oh, they don’t have an office here,” said a security guard at the two-story cobalt blue building near downtown Los Angeles. “We get a lot of packages being dropped off for them, and we say to take the packages back because there is no Black Lives Matter here.”
The Washington Examiner was seeking BLM’s latest tax return covering its financial activities for 2020, which was supposed to be submitted to the IRS on Nov. 15, 2021. Federal law requires BLM to provide a copy of the return to anyone requesting it in person.
The 2019 tax form lists BLM’s address as 3655 South Grande Ave., Los Angeles, California, 90003. No street with the Spanish spelling of “Grand” exists in Los Angeles, but there is a Grand Avenue in a different ZIP code. Experian lists BLM’s address as 3655 S. Grand Ave., ZIP code 90007.
But that isn’t correct either, even though BLM appears to use that address. The last time Experian updated its records from BLM was Dec. 7, 2021, according to LexisNexis.
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One day after the visit, an unidentified BLM spokesperson emailed the Washington Examiner to clear up (or deepen) the mystery.
“In response to your request for a copy of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s 2020 Form 990, we wish to inform you that at this time we do not maintain a permanent office,” the spokesperson wrote, offering to send the form by mail instead.
