A private charity affiliated with tech millionaire Neville Singham has quietly disbursed tens of millions of dollars to radical social justice groups around the globe, The Post has learned.
Recipients of money from the People’s Support Foundation Ltd included an Indian news company which is under investigation for spreading Chinese Communist Party propaganda, according to records.
The foundation started off with more than $143 million in assets, but was run out of a UPS mailbox on Chicago’s East Wacker Drive in 2018.
In its first year of operation, it made more than $15 million in grants to radical, grassroots movements in developing countries in Africa and Latin America, federal tax filings show.
It also donated $20,000 to the Marx Memorial Library in the United Kingdom, which promotes the study of Marxism and socialism, according to public records.
The group doled out $1.5 million to PPK Newsclick Private Ltd., an independent media organization in India raided by New Delhi police in 2023 for alleged links to Chinese Communist Party entities, according to reports.
Singham, who sold his Chicago-based tech company Thoughtworks for $785 million in 2017, is believed to now be based in Shanghai.
The People’s Support Network is overseen by Jodie Evans, Singham’s activist wife, who also presides over New York City-based the People’s Forum. That organization has been involved in anti-Israel demonstrations in the city following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel as well as pro-Nicolas Maduro demonstrations after the former leader of Venezuela was captured by US forces in January.
Evans also co-founded Code Pink, an anti-war nonprofit, in 2002. Singham and Evans did not return a request for comment from The Post.
Both the People’s Forum and Code Pink are part of a constellation of nonprofits known as The Singham Network, which are currently the subject of multiple Congressional probes.
Last week, the US State Department released a report to Congress linking Code Pink and the People’s Forum to Chinese influence operations.
“The Jodie Evans-run People’s Support Foundation, a private foundation, is moving hundreds of millions of dollars to almost exclusively non-charitable foreign entities, using US intermediaries, with virtually no footprint,” claimed Susan George, chief executive officer of the Intelligent Advocacy Network, a California nonprofit that has mapped out Singham’s ties to radical groups around the world.
“This is a black box — and it demands government scrutiny.”
Millions in cash from the People’s Support Foundation has been disbursed to other nonprofits with links to Singham, including the similarly named People’s Welfare Association, which also started out being run out of a mailbox, this one in Madison, Wisconsin.
Since its founding in 2019, the group has doled out more than $50 million to radical social justice groups in Asia, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Cash from the People’s Support Foundation is also routed through the United Community Fund, a New York-based nonprofit which, again, lists its address as a UPS mailbox.
That group sent out $34 million to radical social justice movements in developing countries in 2018 as well as $3 million to the People’s Forum and $700,000 to Tricontinental Ltd., a Marxist think tank which is part of the Singham Network, federal filings show.
“What the public sees as ‘activism,’ is actually the final output of a deeply opaque funding system operating under the privilege of US tax exemption,” claimed George.
