Beeban Kidron → founded → 5Rights Foundation
Observed 2026-09-05
5Rights identifies Beeban Kidron as its founder.
The main branches
Digital-rights policy & funders
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11 relationships5Rights Foundation → Sponsored California adaptation → California AB2273
Historical UK / California codes
Original2022 California analyses confirm5Rights co-sponsorship. Chaptered text under18 coverage and allowed applying child protections to all consumers instead of estimating age. Kidron sought under18, but causation of the final provision and present enforceability were not assessed.
Omidyar Network → $600k paid · 2021 → 5Rights Foundation
2021
General operating support paid during 2021; no earmarking to the lobbying contract established.
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Omidyar Network → $850k paid · 2023 → 5Rights Foundation
2023
General operating support paid during 2023; this later payment cannot fund an earlier 2022 transaction without additional evidence.
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Omidyar Network → Acknowledged coalition support → California AB2273
15 Sep 2022
Funder credits support with Reset for mobilisation and passage of California’s code.
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5Rights Foundation → $50k · paid lobbying contract → Capitol Connection
Services 2022; filed 27 Jun 2024
Contract for May-September2022 services at USD10,000/month; five USD10,000 receipts are reported over date ranges, not exact bank dates. Client owns contract work including drafts; specified nonpublic disclosure and expenses require consent/advance approval. No blanket editorial-approval clause or exercised output approval established. Neither a UK-government source nor the later2023 Oak award is established as this contract funding.
Financial details: value: 50,000; currency: USD; kind: five registrant-reported receipts; period: Ranges June2-October4,2022 for May-September services; see filingp21
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Capitol Connection → Lobbying and amendment negotiation → California AB2273
May–September 2022
Registrant logs record actual background-sheet exchanges, proposed author amendments, coalition-letter submissions and negotiations in2022. Separately filed letters and California analyses supply work-product counterparts. Filing and transmission do not establish authorship or client approval of every item.
Oak Foundation → $2m award / 3 years → 5Rights Foundation
2023 report
Core-support award in the 2023 report; not an annual payment.
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Prudence Trust → £745,500 award · 2025–28 → 5Rights Foundation
Awarded 25 Sep 2025
Core work including legal standards, research, compliance and technical norms.
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Rothschild Foundation → £150k award · AI / EdTech → 5Rights Foundation
Awarded 18 Jul 2025; planned 2025–28
Research award; cash disbursement not verified. Historical zero disbursement field is not a current payment total.
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Beeban Kidron → declared chair role in debate → 5Rights Foundation
Declaration 6 July 2023; not an open-ended tenure finding.
At the new Report stage Kidron declared that she chaired 5Rights Foundation.
A contemporaneously declared NGO/parliamentary role bridge; does not establish donor instructions.