George Soros

The four-line truth

Lines are separate lifecycle measures and are never summed: committed = donor-published award/approved-commitment flows or signed recipient-confirmed commitments within the displayed source coverage period, including exact named commitments, plus reviewed current forward-portfolio aggregates that are never accumulated across source snapshots; awaiting = latest-FY statutory 'approved for future payment' or audited future-support-obligation balance; deployed = disclosed paid amounts, split into statutory, recipient-confirmed, and donor-reported evidence; in vehicles = transfers to controlled vehicles, DAFs, recipient foundations, or unresolved associated vehicles pending onward evidence (withheld-amount gifts counted separately). Absence of events is absence of loaded evidence, not zero giving.

Top recipients

1. CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY61 grants · FY2022–FY2024 ·statutory$272.0M
2. BARD COLLEGE55 grants · FY2022–FY2024 ·statutory$168.7M
3. Central European University46 grants · FY2018–FY2021 ·statutory$151.1M
4. Bard College57 grants · FY2018–FY2021 ·statutory$91.3M
5. New Venture Fund46 grants · FY2020–FY2021 ·statutory$39.3M
6. ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC39 grants · FY2022–FY2024 ·statutory$34.0M
7. AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION18 grants · FY2022–FY2024 ·statutory$29.1M
8. Institute for New Economic Thinking2 grants · FY2021 ·statutory$28.8M

Largest recipients across loaded paid line-item records; recipient names as filed (entity resolution pending). Aggregate-basis sources carry no recipient detail.

Transparency

• Publishes an open grants databaseno donor-published database loaded0/40
• Capital traceable to a named recipient100% of $3,426,312,55930/30
• Statutory filings carry recipient detail100% of $3,426,312,559 filed15/15
• Most recent evidenceFY202415/15

US private foundations must name material grantees on Form 990-PF, so recipient-level detail here is compelled, not volunteered.

Voluntary points reward disclosure the donor chose — publishing an open grants database, and naming recipients. Compelled points reflect how completely and how currently their statutory filings land. The split exists because disclosure regimes differ by jurisdiction: a high compelled score is law-abiding, not generous, and a low one may reflect a rule the donor did not write.

Vehicles · 11 regulator- or Wikidata-linked

• Foundation to Promote Open SocietyEIN confirmed · IRS 990-PFIRS-TEOS 263753801 · founder/funder
• Soros Fund Managementno EIN claim
• Central European Universityno EIN claim
• Open Society Foundationsno EIN claim
• DATAno EIN claim
• Stefan Batory Foundationno EIN claim
• International Renaissance Foundationno EIN claim
• Open Society Foundation for South Africano EIN claim
• Open Society Forumno EIN claim
• Open Society InstituteEIN confirmed · IRS 990-PFEIN 137029285 · NEW YORK, NY · assets $5.40BIRS-TEOS 137029285 · founder/funder
• International Science Foundationno EIN claim

Provenance