Gov. Gavin Newsom has helped to funnel more than $4.4 million in donations from organizations and powerful figures to a political nonprofit created by his spouse, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, an analysis by The Post found.

The California Partners Project, a nonprofit launched by Siebel Newsom in 2020 to promote gender equality, has raked in a significant amount of cash from donors at the request of her hubby — thanks to a murky loophole, according to a review of nonprofit filings and state records.

The findings come as it was also revealedthat Newsom helped push woke documentariesproduced by another one of his wife’s pet projects, The Representation Project, into California classrooms.

Donors to the California Partners Project include Silicon Valley Bank ($100,000), the wealthy Pritzker family (almost $572,000), the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians ($1.9 million combined), Blue Shield of California Foundation ($50,000) and New Venture Fund ($100,000) — the last of which is a progressive “dark money” group.

Dark money groups refer to politically active non-profits that don’t have to disclose donors, unlike political action committees.

The sizeable donations to the California Partners Project were made as “behested payments,” with Newsom’s help. A behested payment is a donation made to a third party at the request of a public official, allowing pols to solicit unlimited money for initiatives or charities they favor.

The payments are not considered campaign contributions or personal gifts, but any donation of $5,000 or more in a calendar year must be reported.

“The whole concept of behested payments is disgusting,” railed Steve Hilton, a Republican candidate for California governor.

“It’s literally corruption in plain sight. You can be certain that as governor, I will not be engaging in this corrupt practice and I will do everything in my power to ban it.”

Many of these donors have alsobenefited from Newsom’s seven years in the governor’s office, such ashis lobbying for the bailout of Silicon Valley Bankin 2023 and hisblocking the Koi Nation from building a competing tribal casinonorth of San Francisco in 2024.

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