The Open Society Policy Center (OSPC), a nonprofit established by George Soros, awarded $140 million in support of advocacy organizations and ballot-focused initiatives in 2021, CNBC reports. 

During the 2022 midterm campaigns, OSPC awarded an additional $60 million to similarly focused charities, and Soros personally donated $170 million to Democratic candidates and campaigns. Recipients include America Votes ($16.9 million), Demand Justice ($4.5 million), Equis Labs ($6.48 million), and Future Forward USA ($5.5 million).

OSPC is part of Soros’ Open Society Foundations network, and two of Soros’s children sit on its board, according to tax filings. The contributions boost Soros’s total contributions to political campaigns and causes since January 2020 to roughly half a billion dollars.  

According to the OSPC website, the funding wasn’t specifically earmarked for midterm elections. Tom Watson, an editorial director at the Open Society Foundations, conceded in an email to CNBC that “there are definitely some OSPC grants that went to organizations working to combat voter suppression, support voter registration, and expand civic participation.” 

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