After making billions in #TaxDeductible donations to his philanthropy, the owner of #Tesla & SpaceX gave away far less than required in some yrs— & what he did give often supported his #SelfInterests.
Before Mar 2021, #ElonMusk’s charitable foundation never announced any donations to CameronCounty, an impoverished region at the southern tip of TX that is home to his #SpaceX launch site & local ofcls who help regulate it.
…#ElonMusk, instead, used his foundation to help groups tied to him personally, incl’g a food charity run by his brother & a “Temple of Whollyness” that was set on fire at the 2013 Burning Man, an event he often attends.
He also founded his own #nonprofit school called Ad Astra… to explore new ways to teach math & science.
But that school, too, would serve a personal purpose for Musk. In its first year of operation out of his home in #BelAir…, 5 of Ad Astra’s 14 students were his own children.