How do contributions linked to George Soros to Mark Kelly compare to donations to other Senate Democrats over the same period?

1. What the raw reports say about Kelly’s direct receipts

A Republican Senate committee flagged a small, specific figure: $17,400 in personal contributions to Mark Kelly attributed to George and Alexander Soros, presented as part of a broader NRSC attack about corporate and wealthy donors ^[1]. That NRSC claim is a narrow datapoint about "personal contributions" in the public record and does not account for indirect spending or transfers through outside groups, so on its face the number indicates modest direct donations but not the full picture of Soros-linked political influence ^[1].

2. How Soros actually spends political money and why that matters for comparisons

Reporting and filings show George Soros channels the bulk of his political spending into super PACs and nonprofits—most prominently Democracy PAC and Democracy PAC II—which can move large sums to other political organizations like Senate Majority PAC and state or local party committees; FactCheck documents millions in inter-organizational transfers, and CNBC and other outlets report Soros’s six- and seven-figure gifts and broader midterm spending ^{[2] [3] [4]}. Because those vehicles donate to party-wide efforts and to outside groups that run independent expenditures, a large portion of Soros-linked support for Senate Democrats will appear as contributions to committees and super PACs rather than as itemized checks to individual Senate campaigns ^{[2] [3]}.

3. Comparing Kelly to “other Senate Democrats” requires parsing direct vs. indirect flows

The available sources make two discrete points: one, Kelly has a small, disclosed amount of direct personal contributions tied to Soros ^[1]; two, Soros-backed PACs have funneled large sums into organizations that back Democrats broadly, including Senate-focused groups such as Senate Majority PAC ^[2]. Put together, that means Kelly’s traceable direct Soros-linked donations are small relative to Soros’s overall political war chest, and many other Senate Democrats likely benefited from Soros-funded contributions indirectly through party committees and super PAC transfers—even if those senators did not receive large itemized checks in Soros’s name ^{[1] [2]}.

4. Limits of the public reporting and partisan framing to watch for

The NRSC’s presentation is explicitly adversarial and meant to tar Democrats with “corporate cash,” so it emphasizes selective figures like the $17,400 while omitting the broader context of how money is routed and aggregated ^[1]. OpenSecrets and FEC-derived trackers exist to trace both individual and PAC giving, but the snippets provided here outline methodology without a full per-senator breakdown for the same period, so an apples-to-apples numeric comparison between "Soros-linked" contributions to Kelly and to every other Senate Democrat cannot be completed strictly from these sources ^{[5] [6] [7]}. Independent reporting also shows Soros as one of the largest individual midterm donors and as a major funder of infrastructure that supports multiple Democratic campaigns, which reinforces that comparisons must account for indirect funding channels as well as direct checks ^{[4] [8] [3]}.

5. Bottom line: modest direct giving to Kelly, broad indirect influence across Democrats

Based on the materials available, Mark Kelly’s campaign accepted a modest amount of direct contributions tied to George and Alexander Soros as called out by the NRSC ($17,400), while George Soros’s real leverage comes from large transfers into super PACs and nonprofits that in turn support many Senate Democrats and Democratic committees—so other senators likely received more Soros-linked support in aggregate through those intermediaries even if their direct, name-on-check donations were also modest; precise per-senator totals would require detailed FEC/OpenSecrets disaggregation beyond these excerpts ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}.