Birchall: OpenAI has received $5.5M via the DAF

From:: Jared Birchall
Date:: July 10, 2016 (Sent 5:42:53 AM PDT)
To:: Elon Musk
Subject:: Re: Weekly Update

OpenAI has received $5.5MM from you. But it was sent from the DAF and was channeled through the temporary 501(c)3 that they are using. Anyone who has given any money to OpenAI has gone the same route at this point.

About this email

Birchall reassures Musk that OpenAI has received $5.5M from him, sent from his donor-advised fund through the temporary 501(c)(3) all donors are using.

Where it came from

Court record; attribution confirmed.

Musk v. Altman (N.D. Cal., No. 4:24-cv-04722-YGR), Dkt. 391-42 (Exhibit 18, public redacted version, filed Jan. 16, 2026)

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: donations, funding, fiscal-sponsor, musk-v-openai

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