What financial contributions has George Soros made to organizations supporting Mark Kelly?
Executive summary
A straightforward, fully sourced accounting of George Soros’s financial ties to organizations backing Senator Mark Kelly is not available in the set of documents provided; the clearest dollar figure in those sources is a partisan National Republican Senatorial Committee claim that George and Alexander Soros together gave $17,400 to Kelly, but independent databases that track donor flows (OpenSecrets) are referenced without a specific breakdown in the provided snippets, meaning a comprehensive, verified tally cannot be produced here [1] [2] [3]. The public record does show that Soros and his networks give both directly and indirectly to many Democratic causes and nonprofits, and those networks can funnel money into groups that in turn support candidates — a structural fact noted across reporting [4] [5].
1. The central claim: one partisan tally of $17,400 from Soros to Kelly
A Republican Senate committee’s press release asserts that “$17,400 from George and Alexander Soros” went to Mark Kelly, presenting that figure as part of a broader attack on Democrats’ hypocrisy about corporate money; that is the clearest single-dollar figure tying a Soros family donor name to Kelly in the documents provided, but it is a partisan source and should be treated accordingly [1]. The NRSC’s document is explicit about the dollar amount and about naming both George and Alexander Soros as contributors, but it does not link to FEC line-item filings in the snippet provided, and partisan press releases often aggregate multiple donation types (individual checks, bundling, PACs) without granular sourcing in the text provided here [1].
2. Independent tracker references exist but are not reproduced here
OpenSecrets — the most commonly used independent database for campaign finance — is referenced multiple times in the supplied search results as the place to find donor-level detail for Mark Kelly and for George Soros’s donation activity, including a donor-lookup tool and a Mark Kelly campaign finance summary; however, the snippets provided do not contain a ready-made, line-item dollar total showing George Soros as the donor to organizations supporting Kelly within this document set, so OpenSecrets likely has relevant data but that data is not reproduced verbatim in the materials furnished for this analysis [2] [3] [6] [7].
3. How Soros’s giving typically flows — direct, indirect, and through nonprofits
Reporting and donor profiles make clear that Soros often gives both directly to political committees and philanthropically through foundations and nonprofits that then fund allied organizations; investigative reporting has shown his networks can route funds through multiple nonprofits before money reaches groups that do electoral work, and congressional summaries have summarized this structure in public hearings and reporting [4] [5]. That structural fact is relevant because money can appear “indirect” — given to a nonprofit or intermediate group rather than to a campaign committee or a candidate-specific PAC — and so a simple search for “Soros → Kelly” in a limited set of sources may miss those intermediary flows [4].
4. Context on claims, misattribution risks, and the limits of supplied evidence
Claims tying Soros to specific candidate-supporting groups have a long history of being overstated or misattributed; fact-checkers have repeatedly cautioned that large aggregate figures ascribed to Soros for causes like Black Lives Matter have been inflated or are the sum of many grants to multiple groups, not a single direct payment to a named political campaign or organization [8]. The supplied material includes both partisan attack literature and general donor-profile reporting, but it lacks a nonpartisan, itemized FEC-style printout in these snippets that would definitively list every Soros-family or Soros-affiliated entity donation to organizations explicitly supporting Mark Kelly [1] [2] [5].
5. Bottom line and how to verify further
Based on the documents provided, the one specific dollar amount tying George (and Alexander) Soros to Mark Kelly is the NRSC’s $17,400 claim; independent sources such as OpenSecrets are cited repeatedly as the definitive place to trace those donations but the necessary line-item data is not present in the supplied snippets to corroborate or expand that number here [1] [2] [3]. To produce a comprehensive, verifiable accounting one must query the FEC/OpenSecrets donor pages directly for Mark Kelly’s committee and for individual Soros-family entries and also trace grants from Soros-funded nonprofits to intermediary groups that spent on Kelly-supporting activity, because the available reporting emphasizes both direct donations and indirect flows through NGOs and PACs [6] [4] [5].