George Soros nonprofits funded anti-police groups in 2021
5 Min Read
Money from the billionaire's nonprofit organization was used to support "defund" organizations, activist centers, and even local campaigns.
-
Nonprofits in George Soros' Open Society Foundations networks provided at least $35 million to anti-police groups and initiatives last year. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Nonprofits in liberal billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundations network fueled anti-police groups and initiatives $35 million in 2021, tax forms reviewed by Fox News Digital show.
In recent years, Soros has funded various organizations and initiatives that are engaged in reforming the criminal justice system. As part of the initiative, he has also given hundreds of far-left prosecutor candidates financial support.
The financier's nonprofits kept up the pressure in 2021 by transferring significant sums to organizations that support defunding police, gathering places where progressive activists work to undermine the legal system, and even databases that track donations to unions and foundations for police departments.
"The Open Society Foundations is proud to have been one of the earliest and most robust supporters of efforts to address the issues of crime and public safety while protecting freedoms that Americans hold dear," Laleh Ispahani, co-director of Open Society-US, told Fox News Digital.
She said there were reforms to the criminal justice system with broad support across the political spectrum, suggesting that freedom is threatened when state actors are above the law, and that “accountability is even more essential when they are given the right to use force on behalf of the government."
Ispahani added that the level of police violence, particularly the violence impacting black communities, has spurred reform efforts across the country.
"Since the murder of George Floyd, many communities have increased spending on policing, while deaths at the hands of police has continued to rise to new heights," Ispahani added. "We continue to believe that reforms are needed and that communities should continue to lead those efforts."
The Movement for Black Lives
According to tax documents released by OSF to Fox News Digital, Soros' Open Society Policy Center recently donated $15 million to Tides Advocacy for the Electoral Justice Project.
The initiative is being led by The Movement for Black Lives, a collaboration of more than 50 organizations that are affiliated with Black Lives Matter and advocate defunding police and reforming the criminal justice system.
Although there are few details online, the Movement for Black Lives stated in a post on its website last year that the project would distribute $75,000 "to 12 Black-led organizations that are expanding democracy and building political power in defense of Black lives."
In addition to opposing police, the Movement for Black Lives has stated that cop killers should be supported. Sundiata Acoli, who was found guilty of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a traffic check-in 1973, was one of the people who the group asked supporters to sign on to a clemency petition last summer.
The Black-led Movement Fund
Soros's cash made its way to other initiatives that backed the BLM-aligned coalition last year. The Foundation to Promote Open Society, another Soros nonprofit, sent $10 million to Borealis Philanthropy for its Black-led Movement Fund, which provides support to the Movement for Black Lives, according to its website.
The Communities Transforming Policing Fund (CTPF) was established by the Foundation to Promote Open Society with $10.75 million to "identify, support, and nurture promising community-based police reform campaigns."
"The CTPF supports groups to build power, increase police accountability and transparency, end criminalization, and shift power and resources away from punitive, reactive, and carceral responses to preventative, transformative community-based safety strategies," its website states.
The nonprofit previously sent the hub $4.5 million in 2019 and 2020 before receiving the most recent financing from CRH. Included in the sum was a million dollars used to fund the project's creation.
Poder in Action
On the other hand, Soros's nonprofits also funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to Austin, Texas, targeting police last year, according to the tax forms.
Soros also poured money into tracking police-related donations. The Foundation to Promote Open Society gave $200,000 to Poder in Action last year to support a project called The Prometheus Conspiracy.
"Not only has billionaire George Soros spent millions propping up pro-crime prosecutors, but now we've learned he's spent the last year bankrolling efforts to defund the police as well," Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told Fox News Digital.
"It is extremely troubling that tens of millions in dark money is flooding our communities, all towards initiatives that will make us and our families less safe," Sutherland said.
According to a recent story by Fox News Digital, the four 'leftist' district attorney candidates who ran for office in November and received support from Soros won handily.
