Which specific grants from Open Society Foundations or Rockefeller Brothers Fund are documented to recipients linked to campus protests?

1. The Open Society record: documented grants but degrees of separation

The Open Society Foundations publishes a grants database and affirms it gives thousands of grants each year across civil society and advocacy causes, making it a documented source when reporters seek whether specific organizations have received OSF support ^{[1] [6]}. Fact-checking reporting that examined campus protests concluded that OSF had awarded grants to at least two organizations named in coverage of the demonstrations — and that many grants cited were general operating support rather than payments for protests or direct coordination of on-campus actions ^[2]. The OSF itself explicitly says it does not pay people to protest or directly train or coordinate protestors, and that grantees must comply with laws and norms of nonviolence ^[7].

2. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund: named grantees and RBF’s public denial of direct involvement

Multiple news outlets and advocacy trackers have reported that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has made multi-hundred-thousand-dollar grants to organizations that appear in maps of the protest ecosystem, with specific figures reported in secondary sources — for example, reporting has cited roughly $100,000 to IfNotNow and approximately $490,000 to Jewish Voice for Peace across recent years, and other outlets trace donations from Rockefellers to intermediaries such as Tides that in turn gave to groups active on campuses ^{[8] [9] [10] [5]}. The RBF’s own public statement, however, says the Fund “has had no direct involvement in the campus protests” and that it did not earmark funds for them while acknowledging some grantees have provided training or legal support to student leaders ^[3].

3. Specific grants cited in reporting — what is documented in the assembled sources

The assembled reporting and watchdog material documents or repeats the following grant-level claims: disclosures that RBF funded Jewish Voice for Peace to the tune of roughly $490,000 (and other mid-six-figure sums to pro‑Palestinian organizations) appear in InfluenceWatch and allied reporting ^[5], while conservative and center-right outlets and analysts have highlighted an alleged $300,000 donation from a Rockefeller-affiliated donor to Tides, and that Tides flowed funding to groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace ^{[11] [9] [10]}. For OSF, fact-checkers identified explicit OSF grants to groups named in campus protest coverage and emphasized that the grants were often general operating support and that connections between a foundation grant and specific on‑campus actions typically include several intermediaries or programmatic degrees of separation ^[2].

4. Limitations, competing interpretations, and what the public record actually proves

The public record assembled here confirms that OSF and RBF have funded organizations that are part of the broader ecosystem of groups involved in or associated with campus activism, but it does not provide evidence in these sources that either foundation directly financed or organized specific protests on campus; OSF’s grant database is available for verification ^[1] and RBF publicly denies earmarking funds for campus protests ^[3]. Many media reports and advocacy pieces conflate ecosystem funding, intermediary grants, and operational support with direct payment for protest activity, and available sources repeatedly caution about “degrees of separation” between a foundation grant and the actions of individual protesters ^{[2] [10]}. Where concrete dollar figures are cited in secondary reporting (e.g., RBF to JVP, RBF to IfNotNow, donations routed through Tides), those figures originate in investigative summaries and watchdog compilations rather than single, primary grants databases presented in these sources; readers should consult OSF’s past grants database and RBF’s published five‑year grant lists or PF990 tax filings for primary documentation ^{[1] [3]}.