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Conservative S.F. billionaire emerges as central figure in city's latest political controversy
By Sophia Bollag,
Politics Reporter, Sacramento
Updated Aug 15, 2022 10:58 a.m.

Oberndorf gave more than $900,000 to Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, the top donor to the Boudin recall.
Oberndorf gave more than $900,000 to Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, the top donor to the Boudin recall.
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The revelation that San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins was paid six figures by a nonprofit organization founded by a top donor to the Chesa Boudin recall has put a spotlight on the man behind the nonprofit and the campaign: San Francisco billionaire Bill Oberndorf.
Oberndorf made headlines as one of the big Republican donors who bucked the party in 2016 and supported Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. He donated more than $1.5 million to boost former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s bid for the Republican nomination that year, according to federal campaign contribution records.
He was registered as a Republican as recently as 2017 but has since registered without party preference. Voter records from 2019 show he was registered with the the American Independent Party, a far-right political groupthat many people mistakenly select when trying to register as political independents.

Representatives for Oberndorf initially declined to make him available for an interview or did not respond to calls for this story, but his assistant, Kathy Daly, contacted The Chronicle after this story was first published and provided a record showing he is now registered without party preference. She said he was never registered with the American Independent Party.
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Oberndorf, who co-founded the investment company SPO Partners, often donates to more moderate, right-of-center candidates. He gave $32,400 to Republican former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s campaign during the unsuccessful election to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom. He also donated to Republican-turned-independent Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s unsuccessful bid for attorney general and Republican Lanhee Chen’s campaign for state controller.
From 2016 to 2020, federal campaign contribution records show he gave $4.6 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC that works to elect Republican senators, and $1.75 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, which works to elect Republicans to the House of Representatives.
He’s among the top donors to the charter school advocacy movement and has backed candidates and political efforts that aimed to increase school choice. He spent millions backing former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat and prominent charter school backer, in his unsuccessful run for governor in 2018.

Oberndorf also gave more than $900,000 to Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, a 501(c)(4) organization that was the top donor to the Boudin recall. That organization shares an address with the similarly named 501(c)(3) nonprofit Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, which hired Jenkins as a consultant after she resigned from the district attorney’s office and backed the effort to recall Boudin. While 501(c)(4)s can make political donations, 501(c)(3)s cannot.
Oberndorf is listed as a director of both entities, which filed paperwork with the state to register as nonprofits on the same day.
Jenkins faces criticism for describing herself as a volunteer for the recall campaign, despite being paid by a closely affiliated organization. She disclosed that she was paid more than $100,000 by Neighbors for a Better San Francisco in her statement of economic interest filed with the city, as first reported by the San Francisco Standard.
Jenkins said she worked as a consultant for multiple San Francisco nonprofits after she resigned from Boudin’s office. She said she did work focused on public safety.
“I was a volunteer for the Boudin recall campaign — period,” she said in a statement Wednesday. “I worked as a consultant for 501(c)(3) organizations only and in no way did compensation influence me. I would have much rather stayed working as a prosecutor. I was committed to volunteering on the recall because I wanted to make sure San Francisco understood what was at stake if Chesa remained in office.”

Boudin often described the recall effort as a conservative one. Even if Jenkins and other Democrats were the face of the campaign, behind the scenes it was bankrolled by conservatives like Oberndorf, Boudin said.
Daly said Wednesday that he was traveling and directed questions to Jay Cheng, who is listed as the principal officer of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy in its statement of organization. Cheng did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Oberndorf and his wife, Susan, give millions to charity through their foundation. In 2020, their foundation’s fiscal records show they gave more than $13 million to UCSF Foundation, where Bill Oberndorf serves as a lifetime director. They also gave $1.4 million to the Environmental Defense Fund, $1 million to Stanford University and half a million dollars each to Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco, Williams College in Massachusetts and the Chronicle Season of Sharing, the San Francisco Chronicle’s charitable fund that provides housing and food aid in the Bay Area.
Sophia Bollag is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: sophia.bollag [at] sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SophiaBollag