A Black Nonprofit Got A 6-Figure Payment From Someone Whose Family Enslaved People

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A nonprofit group that helps Black and marginalized communities in Kentucky has received a six-figure donation from a white donor who says they recently inherited family wealth — and then learned that their great-grandfather owned enslaved people.

The money is a reparations payment, said the donor, who has chosen to remain anonymous.

"The donor had come into a lot of wealth on their 25th birthday," said Nannie Grace Croney, the deputy director of Change Today, Change Tomorrow, the Louisville nonprofit that received the donation.

As they received their windfall, the inheritor grew curious about where their family's money had come from.

"They investigated their family history to find out their great-grandfather had enslaved six individuals in Bourbon [County], Kentucky," Croney said as the nonprofit announced the donation earlier this week.

Because the great-grandfather did not record the enslaved persons' names, the donor couldn't track down the descendants of the people their ancestor had owned. Croney said that because the donor was "aware of how hoarding wealth is a huge contributing factor of inequity in this country, they decided that they should give most of it away."