Did George Soros or Andrea Soros Colombel donate to Joe Biden or Donald Trump in 2024?
Executive summary
George Soros did not, in the reporting provided, appear as a named individual making a direct campaign contribution to Joe Biden or Donald Trump in 2024; instead, filings show nonprofit and super-PAC vehicles he controls gave large sums to Democratic-aligned groups in 2024, most notably a roughly $60 million donation into Democracy PAC that supports Democrats broadly [1] [2]. The materials supplied contain no clear evidence that Andrea Soros Colombel personally donated to either Biden or Trump in 2024, and OpenSecrets and related donor-tracking pages referenced here do not show a direct 2024 personal contribution from her in the documents provided [3] [4].
1. How the money moved: Soros-backed entities versus personal checks
Federal Election Commission filings and reporting cited in Bloomberg and FactCheck show a nonprofit founded and funded by George Soros gave about $60 million to Democracy PAC in January 2024, and filings indicate Democracy PAC and Democracy PAC II are vehicles Soros has used to support Democratic candidates and committees [1] [2]. Those transfers are large, public, and routed through organizational vehicles—standard practice for major political funders—but are not the same as an individual direct contribution to a candidate’s authorized campaign committee, which would be reported differently [2] [1].
2. No direct 2024 personal donations to Biden or Trump shown in these sources
The reporting and donor-tracking pages provided do not document a personal check from George Soros or Andrea Soros Colombel to Joe Biden’s or Donald Trump’s official campaign committees in 2024; the specific FEC-itemized path shown in the documents is organizational giving, not individual candidate-level contributions from the two Soroses named here [3] [1] [5]. A 2023 report cited here does record George (and Alex) Soros making the maximum-allowed individual donations to Biden’s re-election committee in mid-2023, but that is outside the 2024 calendar year the question targets [6].
3. What the trackers say—and what they don’t—about Soros Fund Management and Open Society giving
OpenSecrets entries referenced include an organizational profile for Soros Fund Management and donor lookup pages for George Soros; they summarize that Soros Fund Management reported no outside spending for the 2024 cycle in the specific OpenSecrets summary cited, and OpenSecrets’ methodology focuses on contributions of $200+ reported to the FEC [5] [3] [7]. That means large donations routed through nonprofit foundations or separate PACs—like Democracy PAC—appear in FEC filings and press reports, but these OpenSecrets snippets in the packet do not by themselves list a direct 2024 individual donation from George or Andrea Soros to Biden or Trump [3] [5].
4. Media narratives, spin and competing claims
Coverage ranges from straightforward financial reporting in Bloomberg and FactCheck about a $60 million organizational donation to more sensational and partisan outlets asserting massive personal spending or framing Soros as an omnipotent backer; examples here include Daily Mail’s headline angle and partisan pages making inflated claims not substantiated by FEC filings in the packet [8] [9]. The credible, FEC-backed reporting in Bloomberg and FactCheck ties Soros to heavy funding of Democratic-aligned super PACs in 2024 [1] [2], while other sources conflate organizational giving with direct personal checks to candidates or assert totals without FEC citation [8] [9].
5. Andrea Soros Colombel: the evidentiary gap
The supplied donor detail link for Andrea Soros goes to a general OpenSecrets donor-detail area but the packet lacks a 2024-specific listing showing her making a direct contribution to Biden or Trump; earlier cycles and state-level traces are documented in OpenSecrets historically but are not presented here as evidence of a 2024 personal donation to either presidential campaign [4] [7]. Without a cited FEC filing or a tracked OpenSecrets entry in the provided materials showing a 2024 personal donation from Andrea to Biden or Trump, the reporting at hand cannot substantiate such a payment.
6. Bottom line and limits of the record provided
Based on the reporting and FEC-derived summaries supplied, George Soros used nonprofit and super-PAC mechanisms in 2024 to channel substantial money into Democratic-aligned efforts—most prominently the ~$60 million to Democracy PAC—rather than being shown in these sources as making a direct personal donation to Joe Biden’s or Donald Trump’s campaign in 2024, and there is no evidence in these sources that Andrea Soros Colombel made such a direct 2024 donation to either candidate [1] [2] [3]. This conclusion is limited to the materials provided; more granular FEC or OpenSecrets records beyond these snippets could show additional itemized individual contributions, but those documents were not in the packet reviewed [7] [5].