A West Hollywood nonprofit that counts “The Big Short” director Adam McKay on its board — and was founded by scions of two of America’s most storied families — is doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to bankroll the social-justice revolution roiling the country.
Climate Emergency Fund has financial ties to anti-ICE initiatives in Minnesota, including a group of protestors whostormed a church servicelast month with former CNN host Don Lemon, The Post has learned.
Since its founding in 2019, the organization has backed radical groups that have engaged in civil disobedience and vandalism, with one organization creating a “toolbox” for disrupting law enforcement activities.
CEF was founded by filmmaker Rory Kennedy, a daughter of Sen. Robert Kennedy, and philanthropist Aileen Getty, granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. Investor Trevor Neilson is another co-founder of the group, which was incorporated in Delaware.
Hollywood filmmaker McKay donated $4 million to the charity when he joined its board of directors in 2022. The Academy Award winner and climate activist behind Hollywood films like “Vice” and “Don’t Look Up” as well as HBO’s “Succession,” said the group supports “disruptive activism,” ina 2024 interviewwith Rolling Stone.
“Interrupting business-as-usual forces politicians and the media to pay attention, and forces members of the public to choose a side,” the group’s website reads.
Until recently, Climate Emergency Fund also included “Succession” star Jeremy Strong on its board of directors, according to its most recent federal tax filing in 2024.
CEF gave a total of $45,000 to the New York City and West Hollywood chapters of Beautiful Trouble, a nonprofit that produces a civil disobedience toolkit in four languages, according to itswebsite.
Beautiful Trouble’s website provides instruction in using social media to create a “flash mob,” among other tactics.
Anti-ICE activists connected to Beautiful Trouble recently harassed churchgoers — chanting “ICE out!” as Lemonlivestreamed the protest— during a Sunday service on Jan. 18.
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