Mayor Daniel Lurie’s team today revealed the grand total cost of Lurie’s two-month transition: Some $2.96 million from 149 donors.
The majority of the funds were spent on Lurie’s inauguration weekend: $2,060,000. That included the inauguration ceremony at Civic Center Plaza and Lurie’s City Hall open house, which cost $1.32 million, and the Chinatown night market that same evening, which cost $625,000. Of the nearly $3 million raised, $750,000 was spent on staff.
The biggest donation came from the San Francisco 49ers, which gave $150,000. Some other top donors include J Capital principal Ted Janus and San Francisco-based financial technology company Chime; each gave $100,000 in late December.
Members from the Fisher family, the billionaires behind the Gap, also gave big to Lurie’s transition. John Fisher, the majority owner of the Oakland A’s baseball team, and his wife Laura Fisher, together gave $100,000. William Fisher, the director of the Gap and his partner, Sako Fisher, pitched in another $100,000. And Robert and Randi Fisher, who co-founded the Pisces Foundation, also gave $100,000.
A host of others gave $50,000 each, including Ron Conway, the venture capitalist and longtime Ed Lee and London Breed financier; Thomas Coates, the real-estate investor and rent-control foe who gave big to Mark Farrell’s ballot-measure committee, and Neil Mehta, the venture capitalist who has been tied to a string of LLCs accused by critics of a “hostile takeover” of mom-and-pop shops on Fillmore.
Alison Pincus, a nonprofit head and the ex-wife of Zynga billionaire Mark Pincus, gave $50,000, as did the Emerson Collective, the foundation run by Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’ widow.
Max Szabo, the spokesperson for Lurie’s mayoral campaign and transition, noted that while there were no official guidelines for transition, Lurie’s team created a 501(c)(4) nonprofit entity, named San Francisco’s 2025 Inaugural Funds, to govern transition activities and raise money to support inauguration expenses.
Read the complete list of who give to Lurie’s transition here.
Disclosure: Mission Local is a grantee of the Emerson Collective.
The Fishers SUUUUUCK.
Please print or link to the entire list. Thanks.
No more turtles. It’s billionaires all the way down.
So jealous! The days of lining your own pockets with taxpayer dollars are over! It’s time to prosecute all nonprofits for their misappropriation of public funds!