REPORT: California Assemblyman Steers $6 Million to His Own Nonprofit 

California Assemblyman Dr. Corey Jackson (D-Moreno Valley), who received his Masters in Social Work, founded and directs the nonprofit Center Against Racism and Trauma (CART), which has been tax-exempt since February 2022.

“California quietly boosted taxpayer funding for a nonprofit founded by a sitting Assemblyman from $250,000 to $6 MILLION—a 2,300% increase. Its latest IRS return reports zero employees, zero volunteers and only $57,667 in annual expenses,” White House Correspondent and War Room co-host Natalie Winters claimed Thursday on X.

EXCLUSIVE: California quietly boosted taxpayer funding for a nonprofit founded by a sitting Assemblyman from $250,000 to $6 MILLION—a 2,300% increase.

Its latest IRS return reports zero employees, zero volunteers and only $57,667 in annual expenses. pic.twitter.com/pwculJnzPc

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) August 20, 2026

Assemblyman Jackson currently chairs the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Human Services, and has chaired and served on other Human Services committees overseeing the state social-services agency handling the $6 million allocation. He named CART his district’s “Nonprofit of the Year” three weeks before the $6M appeared in the budget, then voted YES on the measure. The identity of the earmark’s requester has not been made public.

Jackson founded the Center Against Racism and Trauma Inc. in 2020 (during Covid), whose web address is www.destroyracism.org, and he serves as its founder and director.

In that role at the group’s first “Inland Empire Anti-racist Summit,” Jackson declared the region a “no hate zone” according to CART’s website.

The organization focuses on anti-racism education, youth programs, community organizing, and addressing trauma from racism in the Inland Empire.

Jackson chairs the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Human Services. This subcommittee oversees the state social-services agency and budget. CART’s most recent available IRS Form 990 for fiscal year June 2024, shows approximately $258,501 in revenue, $57,667 in expenses, a surplus, and net assets around $234,000.

Filings indicate no paid employees or volunteers beyond key officers in the summary data. Natalie Winters’ investigation reports that a California budget earmark for CART rose from $250,000 to $6 million, placed under immigration services and vulnerable populations language, available through 2028, with limited public detail on deliverables, metrics, or the requester.

Winters reported that Assemblyman Jackson named CART his own legislative district’s “Nonprofit of the Year” about three weeks before the $6 million amount appeared, and then voted yes on the measure. Newsforce posted the pic.

Jackson has publicly engaged with and appeared at CART events, and California budgets routinely include district-focused earmarks.

Notably Assemblyman Jackson also featured DSA and Marxist figures as speakers, according to his website:

Angela Davis: Frankfurt School graduate, longtime member of the Communist Party USA, and twice served as its vice-presidential candidate, Political Activist, University of California College Professor. She was a student of Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse, the original philosopher of critical theory and a devout Marxist.

Dolores Huerta: Radical Labor activist, Democratic Party operative and community organizer best known for co-founding the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union with Cesar Chavez. She is an honorary co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The Communist Party USA has publicly described her as an “inspiring labor activist” in lists of women linked with struggles for democracy, socialism, and peace–praise from outside, not evidence of membership or adherence to communist ideology.

Ibram X. Kendi is a professor, activist, and author known for advancing the ideology of “antiracism.” Kendi claims that any inequalities are inherently the result of racist policies. Kendi has argued that there is no such thing as being “non-racist,” and that in order to avoid being racist, individuals must actively combat racism by promoting left-of-center policies. Kendi has claimed that other approaches to racial inequality, such as race-blind policymaking or an emphasis on individual responsibility, are inherently racist. Kendi was born Ibram Henry Rodgers in Queens, New York to a tax accountant and a healthcare business analyst.

The apparent conflict of interest by Assemblyman Dr. Corey Jackson needs immediate investigation. If California Attorney General Rob Bonta won’t do it, the U.S. Department of Justice should.

As the founder of a small, taxpayer-funded nonprofit, Assemblyman Jackson’s dual role in overseeing state funding for it, publicly recognizing and awarding his own organization, and securing a large unexplained jump in its allocation raises serious conflict-of-interest and transparency questions common to legislative earmarks.

California ethics rules require disclosure and recusal in certain personal-financial-interest cases, but lawmakers frequently support and fund local nonprofits they have historical ties to.

Assemblyman Jackson’s Form 700 disclosures with the Fair Political Practices Commission are interesting in that he filed one in 2026 for 2021, showing salary from SBX Sigma Beta XI Inc., “a dedicated Youth Development Organization,” between $10,000 and $100,000:

The recent X thread by Natalie Winters exposes the California budget earmark for Jackson’s CART rose from $250,000 to $6 million, placed under immigration services/vulnerable populations language, available through 2028, with limited public detail on deliverables, metrics, or the requester.

Dr. Jackson has made his name as a radical Democrat who associates with radicals—will his name now also be associated with nonprofit graft?