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Google co-founder and billionaire Larry Page is the subject of a report Wednesday from tech journal ReCode which shows how the Silicon Valley super-rich use workarounds in managing their private foundations that avoid direct contributions to actual charities. 

Page’s Carl Victor Page Memorial Foundation pushed around $400 million in publicly announced Christmastime donations between 2015 and 2017, but none of it reportedly went directly to charity.

“This a very bad look for Larry Page,” tweeted National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy researcher Ryan Schlegel.

Read the entire article in Common Dreams.

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