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A far-left foundation that bankrolled CodePink and recently reported $54.6 million in assets before being shut down by California regulators has resurfaced at a ramshackle Miami home.
Arc of Justice, led by CodePink co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin, lost its charitable registration after years of failing to file required financial paperwork with California. But what appears to be the same nonprofit is now registered at a small, single-story house owned by Benjamin's longtime partner and fellow activist, Tighe Barry, documents viewed by Fox News Digital show.
The sequence of events raises questions about why it fell out of compliance in California.
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Arc of Justice has poured millions of dollars into left-wing and progressive activist organizations over the years, including CodePink, Global Exchange, the Alliance for Global Justice and the National Iranian American Council, according to IRS filings. Federal tax returns provided to Fox News Digital by Arc of Justice's attorney show the California foundation's assets grew from $51.4 million at the end of 2023 to $54.6 million at the end of 2024, while it continued distributing millions of dollars in grants.
CodePink has campaigned against U.S. policy toward China and Cuba and has been accused by congressional investigators of promoting Chinese Communist Party interests — allegations the group has denied.
Benjamin, who has been a political activist for decades and has often disrupted congressional hearings, co-founded CodePink with Jodie Evans, the wife of Shanghai-based Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, whose funding network has come under congressional and federal scrutiny over alleged foreign influence and the use of tax-exempt organizations.
Now it’s Arc of Justice’s finances that are coming under the microscope.
"It's pretty unusual. Most private foundations are fairly scrupulous on their compliance efforts," Patrick Sternal, a former IRS official who specialized in tax-exempt organizations, told Fox News Digital. "So it's unusual for a private foundation with that much in the bank to fall out of compliance and to be suspended."
The California Attorney General's Office, led by Democrat Rob Bonta, revoked Arc of Justice's charitable registration in January 2025 after it failed to submit required annual filings with the state for 2020 through 2024. The foundation had already been suspended for more than a year before the revocation. The state Attorney General's Office told Fox News Digital that Arc of Justice had continually failed to respond to the registry's delinquency and suspension notices before its registration was revoked.
Under the revocation, Arc of Justice had 30 days to provide the state with an accounting of its charitable assets and was barred from distributing or spending them without the attorney general's prior written approval.
The years of noncompliance culminated in another notice from California regulators on June 19, 2026, reiterating the outstanding asset-accounting requirement and warning that Arc of Justice couldn’t distribute or spend charitable assets without the attorney general's written approval.
The notice said Arc of Justice would also have to provide regulators with enough information to assure the state that there had been "no loss of charitable assets" if it sought to have its registration reinstated. The Network Contagion Research Institute previously detailed Arc of Justice's regulatory problems in a May report examining the foundation's finances and activities.
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David Levitt, an attorney representing Arc of Justice, said the foundation has submitted filings seeking reinstatement with California regulators.
The Attorney General's Office told Fox News Digital on Sept. 3, 2026, that it had not received the required accounting of Arc's charitable assets. At the time, Arc was listed as "REVOKED" and "PAST DUE." As of Sept. 9, its registration remained "REVOKED," while its reporting status had changed to "IN REVIEW."
California's reinstatement rules require a revoked charity to explain why it failed to comply with reporting requirements and respond to Registry notices.
Laurie Styron, CEO and executive director of nonprofit watchdog CharityWatch, said Arc's substantial assets made the compliance failures difficult to explain.
"A foundation with tens of millions of dollars in charitable assets certainly has the resources to comply with basic reporting requirements," she said.
Fox News Digital asked Levitt to provide documentation of the reinstatement filings and to explain specifically why Arc of Justice failed to make the required California filings in the first place. He had not responded to those questions by publication time.
California's latest compliance notice to Arc of Justice came just six weeks after a new Arc of Justice surfaced in Florida.
On May 8, Barry and other people associated with the original foundation incorporated a new nonprofit bearing the same name in the Little River neighborhood in North Miami.
The timing raised obvious questions: Was the California foundation moving to Florida after its charitable registration was revoked
, and what was happening to its assets?
and what was happening to its assets?
The Attorney General's Office told Fox News Digital it had not received notice from Arc of Justice of any planned transfer, merger or dissolution and had not approved any transfer of the foundation's assets.
Levitt told Fox News Digital that the Florida corporation was created as a "placeholder" while Arc considered relocating its operations from California, but the move was never completed. He said the California corporation was never formally wound down, no assets were transferred and the Florida entity "holds no assets and has conducted no business."
"Arc of Justice, the California nonprofit corporation, currently still holds the assets," Levitt said, adding that they remain professionally managed "in the same accounts they have been in for years."
Levitt subsequently provided Fox News Digital with financial documentation that independently verified that the California foundation continues to hold the assets.
The Miami address wasn't new. The original Arc of Justice had been using Barry's property on its federal tax filings since at least 2017, even as it remained incorporated in California.
Questions have also emerged about the original foundation's federal filings.
Arc of Justice's Forms 990-PF for 2023 and 2024 were not publicly available in the IRS database when Fox News Digital searched for them. Levitt subsequently provided Fox News Digital with copies of both returns.
According to Levitt, Arc of Justice's accountant said both returns had been paper-filed and electronically filed, although Fox News Digital has not independently verified when the IRS received or accepted them.
Benjamin was adamant in a phone interview with Fox News Digital that Arc of Justice had filed its returns every year.
"I'm 100% positive. We have filed the 990s every single year," Benjamin said. She also told Fox News Digital she would make sure the missing returns were provided, which they subsequently were.
Benjamin was less certain about the foundation's California regulatory problems, saying she had moved to Florida and that "the lawyer knows more than I do."
After reviewing the newly produced returns, Sternal said the documents showed Arc of Justice's accountant had at least made an effort to file them, but said questions remained over whether and when they were actually submitted.
"Maybe they are trying to get back into compliance with the IRS," Sternal said. "They still have a lot of clean up to do with California."
Styron similarly said determining when the returns were actually filed was critical to assessing Arc of Justice's compliance. She noted that IRS and state databases can lag behind submissions, but said delays of several years would be unusual.
"It would be tough to say more without knowing when forms were signed and filed," Styron said.
While the new records accounted for the foundation's assets and provided the previously unavailable returns, questions remained over when the federal returns were actually filed.
Styron also said Arc of Justice's explanation for creating the Florida nonprofit did not absolve the California foundation's board of its responsibility to file the active organization's required forms on time.
Meanwhile, Sternal, who is now a nonprofit tax attorney at law firm Holtzman Vogel who advises nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, said there is nothing wrong or unusual about forming a nonprofit in another state. What raises questions, he said, is whether the new Florida organization is intended to take over the original foundation or its assets — a move that would trigger additional legal requirements.
"It's not so easy," Sternal said. "It can be done, it's possible, but there are a lot of hoops that they have to jump through."
Because Arc of Justice remained a California corporation, Sternal said it would have to work with California's attorney general before transferring funds to another organization or moving the foundation out of state.
Along with the new Florida corporation bearing the same Arc of Justice name and Miami address used by the embattled California foundation, two of its three officers also held positions with the original organization.
Maya Danaher, Benjamin's daughter and former treasurer of the original Arc of Justice, is president of the new Florida corporation.
Jonathan Raggett, who served as secretary of the original foundation, is now its treasurer.
Benjamin served as president of the original California foundation but is not listed as an officer of the new Florida corporation.
Meanwhile, Benjamin's longtime partner Barry was not listed as an officer of the original foundation but serves as secretary of the new organization. He is also listed as incorporating Arc of Justice in Florida and serves as its registered agent.
Its stated goal is blunt: "WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT SOCIAL JUSTICE NON PROFITS," according to the articles of incorporation.
All three officers list the Miami house as their address — a 1,334-square-foot Miami duplex owned by Barry, property records show.
When Fox News Digital visited last month, the small, turquoise-blue, single-story house sat partially obscured by thick palms and tropical plants behind a weathered, multicolored wooden fence.
Fading artwork of colorful cats, pigs, flowers, hearts and peace symbols covered the fence, including a pink pig holding a "ONE LOVE" sign. A large "PEACE" poster hung on the house, while a turquoise shade canopy stretched across the property.
Two campaign signs for Democrat Kendrick Meek Jr., who unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic primary election for Florida's 24th Congressional District, stood outside.
Google Street View images from 2022 show the property in brighter colors
before the paint faded and vegetation obscured parts of the fence.
, before the paint faded and vegetation obscured parts of the fence. The images also show a small white van with its front bumper missing parked outside, with "CODEPINK" written across its side in pink marker along with the Spanish words "Cuba vive y trabaja" — "Cuba lives and works."
The van was not visible when Fox News Digital visited.
The house's number was painted vertically on the weathered front gate — the same address listed by the original California foundation and the newly incorporated Florida Arc of Justice.
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.
Its fortune was built largely on Benjamin family money.
Benjamin's father, Alvin Benjamin, was a prominent Long Island real estate developer who founded The Benjamin Companies in the early 1960s. 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.
The foundation's wealth also grew through its investments. In 2020, Arc of Justice reported $12,344,501 in unrealized gains on securities, helping push its year-end assets to nearly $40 million.
Medea Benjamin — identified as Susan Benjamin on the filing — personally contributed $1 million to Arc of Justice in 2022, listing the Miami house as her address.
The foundation subsequently became a vehicle for funding activist organizations, including Global Exchange, the advocacy group Benjamin co-founded with her then-husband, Kevin Danaher. The organization remains active today, with Danaher still serving on its board, according to its 2024 Form 990.
Benjamin later co-founded CodePink in 2002 with Evans and has remained one of the anti-war group's most prominent activists and public faces.
Arc of Justice would go on to pour substantial sums into CodePink, including $251,500 in 2020 and $355,350 in 2022, according to the foundation's IRS filings.
The newly obtained returns show that Arc of Justice gave CodePink $277,580 in 2023 and another $350,000 in 2024.
CodePink has itself come under federal scrutiny. Benjamin traveled to Cuba in March with fellow CodePink co-founder Evans and far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker as part of a roughly 170-person convoy to the communist-run island.
Benjamin later confirmed that the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces U.S. sanctions against Cuba, sent CodePink a detailed inquiry seeking information about the trip's financing, logistics, participants and activities.
Benjamin said the group brought about $600,000 worth of humanitarian aid to Cuba and described the Treasury inquiry as "serious," while also calling it an "intimidation tactic."
Evans and a network of nonprofits funded by her husband, Singham, have also come under congressional and federal scrutiny.
Singham, an American tech entrepreneur who sold his software company ThoughtWorks for an estimated $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai, has directed at least $278 million into six core nonprofits that Fox News Digital previously reported promote socialist, communist and pro-China causes as part of a broader international network of media organizations, activist groups and think tanks.
CodePink is one of those nonprofits.
The congressional investigation remains ongoing, while Singham is separately under federal criminal investigation. Neither Singham nor CodePink has been charged with wrongdoing in connection with the investigations described here.
Florida officials confirmed the new Arc of Justice was created as a Florida nonprofit on May 8, 2026, rather than simply registering the existing California corporation in the state.
"That entity is on our records as a Domestic Nonprofit corporation. It is a Florida entity," Florida Department of State regulatory specialist LaCori Brown told Fox News Digital.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services separately told Fox News Digital that the new Arc of Justice isn’t currently registered to solicit charitable contributions in the state and has not applied for a charitable solicitation registration or exemption.
The department also said it hasn’t received any filings identifying assets transferred from the California Arc of Justice to the new Florida corporation nor any complaints, referrals or regulatory inquiries concerning the new organization.
Sternal stressed that the available records don’t establish that Arc of Justice's assets were misappropriated or improperly used. He said the foundation's years of California noncompliance remained highly unusual.
"This organization with this large endowment has simply fallen off the radar, as it were, with its filings, with its compliance with California," Sternal said.
"Those don't belong to the officers and directors of the foundation. Those belong to the foundation," Sternal said. "They must be used for public charitable purposes."
Levitt said Arc of Justice's board is still considering moving the foundation out of California and potentially establishing two separate charitable vehicles so the foundation's founder and its officers and directors can pursue separate charitable activities.
For now, the original Arc of Justice remains a California corporation and continues to hold its assets, while the future of the newly incorporated Florida organization remains unsettled.
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