Half of donations made by The Musk Foundation had links to Musk, his businesses: NYT

• Elon Musk's charity often supports his own interests, according to a New York Times analysis.
• Half of donations made in 2021 and 2022 had links to Musk, his employees, or his businesses, it found.
• The Musk Foundation also regularly falls short of minimum required donations set by tax laws, it said.

Elon Musk's charity makes infrequent donations and the ones it does make often support his own interests, according to an in-depth analysis by The New York Times.

About half of the donations made by Musk's charitable Musk Foundation in 2021 and 2022 had some link to him, one of his employees, or one of his businesses, the analysis found.