For the fourth year in a row, the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund is making donations to organizations helping families in need across the U.S.
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Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
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What would count as true or false
Judged as of 17 November 2021. True: the Bezos Day One Families Fund announced donations (grants or awards) to organisations helping families in need (e.g. homelessness organisations) across the US in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, so that the November 2021 donations were the fourth consecutive annual round. Mostly true: there were four annual rounds but with a minor gap in timing or naming. Mostly false: 2021 was the third or fifth round, or the years were not consecutive. False: the Fund did not make donations in 2021, or had made them only once or twice before.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (7)
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E1 [PDF] Colorado Coalition for the Homeless Receives $5 Million Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Grant to Help End Homelessness for Families in Colorado Colorado Coalition for the Homeless · 17 November 2021
“DENVER – (November 17, 2021): Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, a statewide housing and healthcare provider for people experiencing homelessness, today announced that it has been selected to receive a $5 million grant from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund.”
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E2 Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos gives money to homeless, including centers in Southern California Orange County Register · 21 November 2019
“All the organizations around the country sharing in $98.5 million in grant money from the Day 1 Families Fund got a public congratulations on Twitter early Thursday from Amazon founder and CEO Bezos:”
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E3 CCSWW Receives Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Grant! | Catholic Community Services of Western Washington Catholic Community Services of Western Washington · 21 November 2018
“Through the Day 1 Families Fund, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos donated a total of $97.5 million to 24 nonprofits across the U.S. working on family homelessness.”
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E4 Jeff Bezos awards $97.5M to the first round of recipients of his Bezos Day 1 Families Fund GeekWire · 20 November 2018
“Jeff Bezos this morning announced the 24 organizations from across the country that will receive a share of $97.5 million in grants from his new Bezos Day 1 Families Fund.”
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E5 Two local nonprofits get millions in grants from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos The Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 10 December 2020
“Bezos, who founded Amazon and is now considered the world’s richest person, started the Day 1 Families Fund in 2018 to give annual grants to organizations that fight family homelessness.”
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E6 Day 1 Families Fund Bezos Day One Fund Own record
“The recipients in 2019 included 32 organizations from 23 states that received donations totaling $98.5 million to support their meaningful, high-impact work to provide shelter and support for families experiencing homelessness in communities across the country.”
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E7 Day 1 Families Fund Bezos Day One Fund Own record
“The 2021 awardees included 32 organizations in 21 states that provide services to families experiencing homelessness. They received donations totaling $96.2 million to help families connect with safe shelter and services they need to achieve stability.”
Reasoning
E5 and E4 record a first round of $97.5M in Day 1 Families Fund grants to 24 nonprofits in November 2018. E3 reports a $98.5M round in November 2019. E6, dated December 2020, reports Atlanta nonprofits receiving grants from the fund and describes it as giving annual grants. E1 shows a grantee announcing on November 17, 2021 that it had been selected for a grant, and E8 lists the 2021 round. Together these show four consecutive annual rounds from 2018 to 2021, which matches the claim.
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Jeff Bezos, “For the fourth year in a row, the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund is making donations to organizations helping families in need across the U.S.” (said 17 November 2021). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_0ea770204b53, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0ea770204b53
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