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福克斯新闻数字频道的调查发现，二十多年来，粉红代码（CodePink）联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明的家族基金会已成为一系列左翼激进组织的主要资金支持者，向粉红代码本身提供了近320万美元资金，同时还资助了抗议团体、法律维权机构以及进步派非营利组织。
该基金会名为“正义之弧”（Arc of Justice），规模达5460万美元，前身为本杰明基金（The Benjamin Fund）。对其完整的美国国税局申报记录的审查显示，该基金会累计提供了近1500笔拨款，总额约2460万美元，资助对象涉及反战活动、进步政策、法律维权以及与移民执法、中国、古巴和以哈战争相关的运动。
受资助最多的机构包括粉红代码、全球交流组织（Global Exchange）、宪法权利中心（Center for Constitutional Rights）、国际草根组织（Grassroots International）和社会善举基金（Social Good Fund），此外还有数十家参与反战活动、进步政策推广、法律维权和进步媒体运营的组织。
“正义之弧”向粉红代码提供的资金，是与上海马克思主义科技大亨内维尔·罗伊·辛厄姆（Neville Roy Singham）相关的资助网络向该组织提供的约133万美元的两倍多。福克斯新闻数字频道此前进行的五部分系列调查发现，辛厄姆的网络向推广亲华言论的组织注入了至少2.78亿美元。
议员斥“特洛伊木马”激进分子涉嫌在美国从事颠覆活动
左图：粉红代码联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明（左）与粉红代码活动人士在华盛顿特区的一场集会上抗议；右图：福克斯新闻数字频道的调查发现，本杰明的家族基金会“正义之弧”自2009年以来向粉红代码提供了近320万美元资金，同时还资助了数十家其他激进组织。
在加州因多年财务合规问题撤销其慈善注册后，“正义之弧”受到了审查，不过该基金会一直在努力重新获得加州监管机构的认可。
本杰明与辛厄姆的妻子朱迪·埃文斯（Jodie Evans）共同创立了粉红代码，长期以来一直是该组织最知名的公众面孔之一，经常带头抗议并打断国会听证会。本周二，她在一场关于所谓外国恶意影响的众议院外交事务小组委员会听证会上进行抗议后，被带离了现场。
福克斯新闻数字频道的调查还发现，该基金会最近几个月发生了全面变革：本杰明已从董事会辞职，新领导层接管了该组织，并且该组织表示打算调整其慈善捐赠方向。
- 下一条 2024年4月30日，在华盛顿特区国会山举行的众议院军事委员会听证会上，曾领导总部位于加州的“正义之弧”基金会、共同创立粉红代码的米迪亚·本杰明手持“让加沙活下去”的标语，因打断听证会而被美国国会警察带离。(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
- 上一条 下一条 2026年4月25日周六，粉红代码联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明在被带离白宫记者晚宴后对媒体讲话。(AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
- 上一条 下一条 2026年3月20日周五，粉红代码联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明与其他活动人士一同抵达古巴哈瓦那机场，作为“我们的美国”车队的一员，声援与中国共产党联系密切的古巴共产党。(Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)
- 上一条 下一条 2026年3月20日，粉红代码联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明在迈阿密国际机场手持支持古巴的标语，随后将随代表团前往古巴。(Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP)
- 上一条 下一条 2026年9月15日，粉红代码联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明与其他活动人士被带离众议院小组委员会关于“特洛伊木马”和恶意外国影响力的听证会现场。(Asra Q. Nomani)
- 上一条 2026年5月11日，粉红代码联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明与伴侣泰伊·巴里（Tighe Barry）回到华盛顿特区的家中。(LG for Fox News Digital)
资金流向追踪
“正义之弧”于2009年开始资助粉红代码，在截至2024年的15个纳税年度中，累计向该组织提供了3,195,280美元的拨款。
根据文件显示，粉红代码是“正义之弧”最大的激进活动受益方。自2009年以来，该基金会及其前身本杰明基金还向全球交流组织提供了约205万美元资金。这一反战与社会正义倡导组织由本杰明与前夫凯文·达纳赫（Kevin Danaher）共同创立，长期以来一直致力于反对美国军事干预和经济制裁。
“正义之弧”还向国际草根组织提供了约224万美元资金，该组织为全球各地的草根社会运动提供资助；向社会善举基金提供了161万美元，该组织为慈善项目提供非营利基础设施和筹款支持；向宪法权利中心提供了约129万美元，该组织是一家法律维权机构；向全球正义联盟（Alliance for Global Justice，AFGJ）提供了约11.4万美元，该组织是一家激进非营利组织。
全球正义联盟因曾为萨米敦（Samidoun）提供财政赞助而受到审查，萨米敦是一个亲巴勒斯坦激进组织，后来被美国财政部制裁。本杰明表示，“正义之弧”最后一笔给全球正义联盟的拨款是2022年的1万美元，并称该基金会在拨款时“并不了解由全球正义联盟提供财政赞助的具体组织”。
通过律师戴维·莱维特（David Levitt），该基金会表示，粉红代码和全球正义联盟都被美国国税局认定为免税公共慈善机构，“正义之弧”在进行拨款时有权依赖这一身份。
拨款范围覆盖了更广泛的激进活动网络。福克斯新闻数字频道审查的国税局申报文件显示，自2009年以来，“正义之弧”及其前身向“战后世界”（World Beyond War）提供了约49.2万美元，向政策研究所（Institute for Policy Studies）提供了约25.5万美元，向犹太之声为和平（Jewish Voice for Peace）提供了约12.4万美元。它还向草根全球正义联盟（Grassroots Global Justice）提供了11万美元，向大众民主中心（Center for Popular Democracy）提供了约9万美元。
国税局申报文件还显示，自2009年以来，“正义之弧”及其前身向《民主现在！》（Democracy Now!）提供了约6.55万美元，而本杰明多年来经常作为嘉宾出现在该节目中。
观看：外国影响力听证会前，粉红代码活动人士就动机接受质询
从资助到激进行动
粉红代码成立于2002年，旨在阻止伊拉克战争，如今已成为美国最知名的反战抗议组织之一，多次打断国会听证会以及涉及美国高级官员的抗议活动，其中包括时任国务卿约翰·克里（John Kerry）和迈克·蓬佩奥（Mike Pompeo）。该组织还参与了全国性的“无君主”抗议活动，反对移民海关执法局（ICE）的执法行动，组织反以色列集会，并发起反对美国对华、古巴和伊朗政策的运动。今年早些时候，粉红代码带领包括Twitch政治主播哈桑·皮克（Hasan Piker）在内的代表团前往古巴。
被问及“正义之弧”长期资助粉红代码和其他激进组织的问题时，詹姆斯敦基金会高级研究员马修·约翰逊（Matthew Johnson）表示，持续的资金支持所产生的影响远远超出了金额本身。
“少量资金实际上可以对更广泛的媒体生态系统产生重大影响……从政治组织的角度来看，它们可能对美国人可获得的信息类型产生不成比例的影响，”约翰逊在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
约翰逊本周二在国会作证，内容是外国对手如何利用非营利组织和其他机构塑造美国公众舆论和政策。他告诉议员们，粉红代码在2020年在北京举行会议后发起了“中国不是我们的敌人”运动，此后一直开展针对中国的倡导活动并组织相关旅行。该运动主张美国应与北京合作而非对抗。粉红代码和本杰明否认接受过中国政府的指示。
观看：传统基金会高级研究员在众议院听证会前与粉红代码的米迪亚·本杰明对峙
本杰明在给福克斯新闻数字频道的电子邮件中表示，这些拨款旨在支持粉红代码的反战工作。
“基金会向粉红代码的捐款是为了支持其反战工作，”她在电子邮件回复中说道。
在本周二的众议院听证会上，本杰明还驳斥了她或粉红代码接受外国政府指示的说法。“从越南战争时代起，我就是一名反战活动人士，”本杰明说，“我从未有外国政府告诉我该做什么。”
辛厄姆及其资助的组织已在福克斯新闻数字频道的报道中被确认身份，他们均否认接受过中国政府的指示，辛厄姆、本杰明和相关组织均未被指控有不当行为。
中国专家警告：北京希望美国人——而非中共——传播其信息
朱迪·埃文斯与内维尔·罗伊·辛厄姆合影。
粉红代码联合创始人朱迪·埃文斯（左）与米迪亚·本杰明（右）在2008年约翰·麦凯恩竞选活动集会上抗议。福克斯新闻数字频道的调查发现，本杰明的家族基金会“正义之弧”在2009年至2024年间向粉红代码提供了近320万美元，使其成为该组织最大的长期资金支持者之一。
粉红代码联合创始人、“正义之弧”家族基金会长期领导人米迪亚·本杰明在华盛顿特区举行的众议院司法委员会听证会上抗议，当时前特别检察官罗伯特·K·赫尔（Robert K. Hur）正在作证。福克斯新闻数字频道的调查发现，“正义之弧”在2009年至2024年间向粉红代码提供了近320万美元。
资金来源何处？
“正义之弧”前身为本杰明基金公司，加州公司记录显示，该基金会于2019年11月正式更名。
本杰明的父亲阿尔文·本杰明（Alvin Benjamin）是长岛知名房地产开发商，于20世纪60年代初创立了本杰明公司（The Benjamin Companies），为该基金会提供了早期有记录的部分资金支持。
该基金会2003年的初始国税局申报显示，他向基金会捐赠了价值683,715美元的合伙权益，米迪亚·苏珊·本杰明（Medea Susan Benjamin）担任主席。
此后的捐款规模更大。根据基金会的国税局申报文件，2010年，本杰明的母亲罗斯·本杰明（Rose Benjamin）的遗产捐赠了10,863,060美元。五年后，阿尔文·本杰明的遗产又捐赠了1500万美元，2019年再次捐赠8,603,450美元。
2022年，米迪亚·本杰明——申报文件中登记为苏珊·本杰明——个人向“正义之弧”捐赠了100万美元，登记地址为迈阿密。
财富如何增长
“正义之弧”的财富主要与投资组合挂钩，在该基金会发放数百万美元拨款的同时，其资产规模持续增长。
福克斯新闻数字频道审查的联邦纳税申报单显示，该基金会的资产从2020年底的3963万美元增长到2024年的5464万美元，期间每年都发放数百万美元的拨款。
“正义之弧”的年度收入大部分来自投资组合，包括股票和共同基金的股息、现金持有利息以及增值投资的利润。
2023年，该基金会报告了近200万美元的收入，其中包括111.1万美元的证券股息和利息、166,421美元的储蓄和短期现金投资利息，以及686,919美元的资产出售净收益。
随着投资组合增值，其投资持仓也带来了可观的收益。2020年，“正义之弧”报告证券未实现收益12,344,501美元，推动年末资产接近4000万美元。
二十多年来，福克斯新闻数字频道审查的国税局申报文件多次显示，该基金会的管理人员没有薪酬，也没有高薪雇员，而该基金会向外部组织拨付了数百万美元。
- 下一条 2025年1月14日，在华盛顿特区国会山举行的参议院军事委员会国防部长候选人皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）确认听证会上，粉红代码联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明（左）与活动人士泰伊·巴里举行抗议。福克斯新闻数字频道的调查发现，本杰明的家族基金会二十多年来一直是粉红代码的主要资金支持者之一。(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
- 上一条 下一条 2017年10月18日，在华盛顿特区举行的参议院司法委员会听证会上，粉红代码活动人士在司法部长杰夫·塞申斯（Jeff Sessions）作证时举行抗议。福克斯新闻数字频道的调查发现，粉红代码联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明的家族基金会在2009年至2024年间向该激进组织提供了近320万美元。(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
- 上一条 2024年7月17日，粉红代码联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明的长期伴侣泰伊·巴里在威斯康星州密尔沃基举行的共和党全国代表大会外围举行抗议。根据公司记录，巴里后来在佛罗里达州注册了一家名为“正义之弧”的非营利组织，并被列为该组织的秘书和注册代理人。(Reuters/Adrees Latif)
转向新方向
在加州撤销“正义之弧”的慈善注册后，福克斯新闻数字频道报道称，一家使用“正义之弧”名称的新佛罗里达非营利组织在本杰明长期伴侣泰伊·巴里位于迈阿密的住所注册成立，这引发了人们对该基金会未来的质疑，以及其资产或运营是否正在从加州迁出。
该地址是一栋朴实的绿松石色房屋，大部分被树木遮挡——对于一家资产超过5000万美元的私人基金会来说，这是一个不起眼的地点。多年来，本杰明和巴里经常一同出现在粉红代码的抗议活动中。
莱维特后来告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，佛罗里达公司是作为“占位符”创建的，当时基金会正在考虑将业务从加州迁出，但最终并未完成搬迁。他表示，加州的公司从未正式解散，没有资产被转移，佛罗里达实体“没有任何资产，也没有开展任何业务”。
提交给加州监管机构的文件显示，该基金会最近提交了2020年至2024年五年的逾期报告，并缴纳了1800美元的申报费和罚款，以此申请重新注册，目前正努力恢复其资格。
价值5400万美元、与粉红代码相关的基金会在加州被关停后，在迈阿密一处破败住宅重新出现
新注册的“正义之弧”非营利组织地址所在的迈阿密房产，有一处风化的彩绘围栏，后方是茂密的热带植被。
在重新注册申请中，莱维特将逾期申报归因于行政误解，即基金会是否已成功从加州迁至佛罗里达。
他写道，在“前主席”（任职至2025年底）任期内，基金会领导人认为“正义之弧”已迁至佛罗里达，因此不再受加州慈善注册要求的约束。
申请文件称，基金会后来任命了一位“新主席”，后者在2026年发现了合规问题，并开始让该组织重新符合规定。申请文件还指出，基金会的董事和管理人员个人支付了逾期申报费的罚款部分。
申报文件显示，本杰明的女儿玛雅·达纳赫（Maya Danaher）是加州基金会的主席。达纳赫此前曾担任该基金会的财务主管，之后升任主席。
“正如此前报道的那样，我已从基金会董事会辞职，其新管理层将确定未来的资助重点，”本杰明说道。
议员称他们站在“特洛伊木马”的门口，这些木马推广恶意外国利益
2018年4月12日，在华盛顿特区举行的参议院外交关系委员会确认国务卿提名听证会上，粉红代码活动人士举牌抗议迈克·蓬佩奥。福克斯新闻数字频道的调查发现，粉红代码在2009年至2024年间从联合创始人米迪亚·本杰明的家族基金会获得了近320万美元的拨款。
目前尚不清楚本杰明为何从董事会辞职，为何迁至佛罗里达的提议最终被放弃，以及该基金会的新领导层为何决定改变其二十多年来一直支持的事业的拨款重点。
本杰明并未被列为佛罗里达公司的高级职员或董事，巴里被列为该公司的秘书和注册代理人。
其公开目标直言不讳：“我们在此支持社会正义非营利组织，”根据公司章程。
莱维特表示，基金会的新领导层打算将拨款重点从其历史上支持的事业上转移开。
“未来，基金会的新管理层将把拨款重点放在国内儿童赋能项目以及支持全美有需要的儿童、家庭和个人福祉的组织上，”莱维特说道。
观看：古巴专家称粉红代码就像美国境内的“特洛伊木马”，为共产主义利益服务
迈克尔·多根（Michael Dorgan）是福克斯新闻数字频道和福克斯商业频道的撰稿人。
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How CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin’s family foundation became a major funder of left-wing activist groups
2026-09-18T13:43:25-04:00 / Fox News
CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin’s family foundation became a major financial backer of a network of left-wing activist organizations over more than two decades, providing nearly $3.2 million to CodePink while also bankrolling protest groups, legal advocacy organizations and progressive nonprofits, a Fox News Digital investigation found.
The foundation, Arc of Justice, is a $54.6 million private foundation formerly known as The Benjamin Fund. A review of its complete IRS filing history found it made nearly 1,500 grants totaling about $24.6 million to organizations involved in anti-war activism, progressive policy, legal advocacy and campaigns involving immigration enforcement, China, Cuba and the Israel-Hamas war.
Among its largest recipients were CodePink, Global Exchange, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Grassroots International and Social Good Fund, alongside grants to dozens of other organizations involved in anti-war activism, progressive policy, legal advocacy and progressive media.
Arc of Justice provided CodePink more than twice the approximately $1.33 million the group received from the funding network linked to Shanghai-based Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham. A previous five-part Fox News Digital investigation found Singham’s network directed at least $278 million into organizations that promoted pro-China messaging.
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CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin (left) and CodePink activists protest during a rally in Washington, D.C. (right). A Fox News Digital investigation found Benjamin’s family foundation, Arc of Justice, provided nearly $3.2 million to CodePink since 2009 while also funding dozens of other activist organizations.(Left: Mattie Neretin/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect; Right: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Arc of Justice has come under scrutiny after California revoked its charitable registration following years of financial compliance failures, though the foundation has been working to regain its standing with California regulators.
Benjamin, who co-founded CodePink with Singham’s wife Jodie Evans, has remained one of the group’s most visible public faces, frequently leading protests and interrupting congressional hearings. On Tuesday, she was escorted from a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on alleged foreign malign influence after protesting during the proceedings.
The Fox News Digital investigation also found the foundation itself has undergone sweeping changes in recent months, with Benjamin stepping down from the board, new leadership taking over and the organization saying it intends to chart a different course for its charitable giving.
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prev CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin arrives home in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2026, with her partner Tighe Barry.(LG for Fox News Digital)
Following the money
Arc of Justice began funding CodePink in 2009 and provided grants to the organization in 15 tax years through 2024, totaling $3,195,280.
According to the documents, CodePink was Arc of Justice’s largest activist beneficiary. Since 2009, the foundation and its predecessor, The Benjamin Fund, also directed about $2.05 million to Global Exchange, the anti-war and social justice advocacy group Benjamin co-founded with her former husband, Kevin Danaher, which has long campaigned against U.S. military intervention and economic sanctions.
Arc of Justice also provided about $2.24 million to Grassroots International, which funds grassroots social movements around the world; $1.61 million to Social Good Fund, which provides nonprofit infrastructure and fundraising support for charitable projects; about $1.29 million to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a legal advocacy organization; and about $114,000 to Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), an activist nonprofit.
AFGJ has drawn scrutiny over its past fiscal sponsorship of Samidoun, a pro-Palestinian activist group later sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury. Benjamin said Arc’s final grant to Alliance for Global Justice was $10,000 in 2022 and that the foundation “was not aware of any specific groups fiscally sponsored by AFGJ” when it made its grants.
Through attorney David Levitt, the foundation said both CodePink and Alliance for Global Justice were recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt public charities and that Arc was entitled to rely on that status when making its grants.
The grantmaking reached across a much broader activist network. Since 2009, IRS filings reviewed by Fox News Digital show Arc of Justice and its predecessor gave about $492,000 to World Beyond War, roughly $255,000 to the Institute for Policy Studies and about $124,000 to Jewish Voice for Peace. It also gave $110,000 to Grassroots Global Justice and about $90,000 to the Center for Popular Democracy.
IRS filings also show Arc of Justice and its predecessor provided about $65,500 to Democracy Now! since 2009, where Benjamin has frequently appeared as a guest over the years.
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From funding to activism
Founded in 2002 with the aim of preventing the Iraq War, CodePink has grown into one of the country’s most visible anti-war protest groups, repeatedly disrupting congressional hearings and protests involving senior U.S. officials, including then-Secretaries of State John Kerry and Mike Pompeo. The group has also participated in nationwide No Kings protests, opposed ICE enforcement actions, organized anti-Israel rallies and campaigned against U.S. policy toward China, Cuba and Iran. Earlier this year, CodePink led a delegation to Cuba that included Twitch political streamer Hasan Piker.
Asked about Arc’s long-term funding of CodePink and other activist organizations, Matthew Johnson, a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, said sustained financial support can have an impact well beyond the dollar amounts involved.
“Small amounts of money can actually go a long way toward impacting the broader media ecosystem… from the perspective of political organization, they may be having an outsized impact on the kind of information that is available to Americans,” Johnson told Fox News Digital.
Johnson, who testified before Congress Tuesday about how foreign adversaries may use nonprofits and other organizations to shape U.S. public opinion and policy, told lawmakers that CodePink launched its “China Is Not Our Enemy” campaign in 2020 following meetings in Beijing and has since pursued China-focused advocacy and organized travel. The campaign argued the United States should pursue cooperation with Beijing rather than confrontation. CodePink and Benjamin have denied taking direction from the Chinese government.
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Benjamin told Fox News Digital the grants were intended to support CodePink’s anti-war work.
“The foundation’s donations to CodePink were made to support its anti-war work,” she said in an email response.
At the House hearing on Tuesday, Benjamin also rejected suggestions that she or CodePink took direction from foreign governments. “I’ve been an anti-war activist from the days of Vietnam,” Benjamin said. “I never had a foreign government tell me what to do.”
Singham and the organizations he has funded, identified in the Fox News Digital report, have denied taking direction from the Chinese government, and neither Singham, Benjamin nor the organizations have been charged with wrongdoing.
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Jodie Evans and Neville Roy Singham are pictured together.(Getty Images)
CodePink co-founders Jodie Evans (left) and Medea Benjamin (right) protest during a John McCain campaign event in 2008. A Fox News Digital investigation found Benjamin’s family foundation, Arc of Justice, provided nearly $3.2 million to CodePink between 2009 and 2024, making it one of the group’s largest long-term financial backers.(Getty Images)
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and longtime leader of the Arc of Justice family foundation, protests before former special counsel Robert K. Hur testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., on March 12, 2024. A Fox News Digital investigation found Arc of Justice provided nearly $3.2 million to CodePink between 2009 and 2024.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Where did the money come from?
Arc of Justice was formerly known as The Benjamin Fund, Inc., with California corporate records showing the foundation formally changed its name in November 2019.
Benjamin’s father, Alvin Benjamin, a prominent Long Island real estate developer who founded The Benjamin Companies in the early 1960s, provided some of the foundation’s earliest documented financial backing.
The Benjamin Fund’s initial 2003 IRS return shows he contributed a partnership interest valued at $683,715 to the foundation, with Medea Susan Benjamin serving as president.
Much larger contributions followed. In 2010, the estate of Benjamin’s mother, Rose Benjamin, contributed $10,863,060, according to the foundation’s IRS filing. Five years later, the Estate of Alvin Benjamin contributed another $15 million, followed by another $8,603,450 in 2019.
Medea Benjamin — identified as Susan Benjamin on the filing — personally contributed $1 million to Arc of Justice in 2022, listing a Miami address.
How the fortune grew
Arc of Justice’s wealth was largely tied to an investment portfolio that continued to grow while the foundation distributed millions of dollars in grants.
Federal tax returns reviewed by Fox News Digital show the foundation’s assets grew from $39.63 million at the end of 2020 to $54.64 million in 2024, as it distributed millions of dollars annually in grants.
Arc of Justice generated much of its annual income from its investment portfolio, collecting dividends from stocks and mutual funds, interest on cash holdings and profits from investments that had increased in value.
In 2023, the foundation reported nearly $2 million in revenue, including $1.11 million in dividends and interest from securities, $166,421 in interest on savings and temporary cash investments and $686,919 in net gains from asset sales.
Its investment holdings also produced substantial gains as the portfolio increased in value. In 2020, Arc of Justice reported $12,344,501 in unrealized gains on securities, helping push its year-end assets to nearly $40 million.
Over more than two decades, IRS filings reviewed by Fox News Digital repeatedly reported no compensation for the foundation’s officers and no highly paid employees, while the foundation directed millions of dollars to outside organizations.
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prev Tighe Barry, the longtime partner of CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin, protests along the perimeter of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. Barry later incorporated a Florida nonprofit using the Arc of Justice name and was listed as its secretary and registered agent, according to corporate records.(Reuters/Adrees Latif)
Changing course
After California revoked Arc of Justice’s charitable registration, Fox News Digital reported that a new Florida nonprofit using the Arc of Justice name was incorporated at the Miami home of Benjamin’s longtime partner, Tighe Barry, raising questions about the future of the foundation and whether its assets or operations were being moved out of California.
The address is a modest turquoise home largely obscured by trees — an unassuming setting for an organization tied to a private foundation with more than $50 million in assets. Benjamin and Barry have frequently appeared together at CodePink demonstrations over the years.
Levitt later told Fox News Digital the Florida corporation had been created as a “placeholder” while the foundation considered relocating its operations from California, but the move was never completed. He said the California corporation was never formally dissolved, no assets were transferred and the Florida entity “holds no assets and has conducted no business.”
The foundation has been attempting to get its registration reinstated after recently filing five years of overdue reports covering 2020 through 2024 and paying $1,800 in filing fees and penalties as part of a petition for reinstatement, documents submitted to California regulators show.
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The Miami property listed as the address of the newly incorporated Arc of Justice nonprofit features a weathered painted fence and sits behind dense tropical vegetation.(AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)
In the reinstatement petition, Levitt attributed the missed filings to what he described as an administrative misunderstanding over whether the foundation had successfully relocated from California to Florida.
He wrote that, during the tenure of the foundation’s “former president,” who served through the end of 2025, foundation leaders believed Arc was no longer subject to California’s charitable registration requirements because it had moved to Florida.
The petition says the foundation later appointed a “new president,” who discovered the compliance problems in 2026 and began the process of bringing the organization back into compliance. The petition also states that the foundation’s directors and officers personally paid the penalty portion of the overdue filing fees.
The filings identify Maya Danaher, Benjamin’s daughter, as president of the California foundation. Danaher previously served as the foundation’s treasurer before becoming president.
“As previously reported, I have resigned from the foundation’s board, and its new management will set its own funding priorities going forward,” Benjamin said.
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CodePink activists hold signs protesting Mike Pompeo during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing for secretary of state in Washington, D.C., on April 12, 2018. A Fox News Digital investigation found CodePink received nearly $3.2 million in grants from the family foundation of co-founder Medea Benjamin between 2009 and 2024.(Jack Gruber / USA TODAY Network)
It is unclear why Benjamin resigned from the board, why the proposed move to Florida was ultimately abandoned or why the foundation’s new leadership decided to shift its grantmaking priorities away from the causes it had supported for more than two decades.
Benjamin was not listed as an officer or director of the Florida corporation, where Barry was listed as secretary and registered agent.
Its stated goal is blunt: “WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT SOCIAL JUSTICE NON PROFITS,” according to the articles of incorporation.
Levitt said the foundation’s new leadership intends to shift its grantmaking away from the causes it historically supported.
“Going forward, the foundation’s new management intends to focus its grant-making on domestic childhood enrichment programs and organizations that support the well-being of children, families and individuals in need throughout the U.S.,” Levitt said.
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Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
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