Which foundations and individual major donors have given to Indivisible and its 501(c)(3)/(c)(4)/PAC arms, and what amounts are publicly traceable?
Executive summary
Indivisible’s publicly traceable funding mix includes large, named grants from progressive foundations — most prominently multiple multi‑million dollar grants from George Soros’s Open Society network and seven‑figure and smaller gifts from Tides entities — plus hundreds of thousands to millions recorded in campaign‑cycle reporting and thousands of individual small donors [1] [2] [3] [4]. Public records and investigative reporting show significant sums but also clear disclosure gaps: some foundation grants are reported, FEC filings and OpenSecrets capture PAC and individual contributions, while Indivisible’s full donor list is not publicly disclosed [1] [5] [6] [4].
1. Foundations with line‑item amounts visible in reporting
Open Society Foundations and related Open Society entities are the clearest, repeatedly cited foundation funder: reporting ties "over $8 million" in total to Indivisible from Open Society and sister organizations, including an $875,000 grant in 2021, $1.135 million in 2022, and a $3 million gift in 2023 from the Open Society Action Fund [1]. Tides network grants also appear in public grant tables: Tides Foundation gave $1.27 million in 2018, $50,000 in 2019, $230,000 in 2020, $147,000 in 2022 and $100,000 in 2023, while Tides Advocacy reported $2.24 million in 2018 and $150,000 in 2020 to related Indivisible entities [1]. Influence/foundation directories and the Foundation Directory list Indivisible as a recipient and summarize those grant relationships [1] [7].
2. What the PAC and federal filings disclose — amounts and donor structure
Indivisible’s hybrid PAC, Indivisible Action, is registered with the FEC and its filings are public; OpenSecrets aggregates those PAC donor disclosures and shows hundreds of individual large ($200+) contributions — 286 such contributions to the Indivisible Project PAC in the 2023–2024 cycle — and cycle totals that are publicly reported [5] [3]. OpenSecrets’ organization profile lists the Indivisible Project as reporting $2,501,804 in contributions in the 2024 cycle and captures outside‑spending and independent‑expenditure data when reported to the FEC [2] [8].
3. Individual major donors: named wealthy backers and limits of public proof
Journalistic summaries and donor‑tracking pieces have linked prominent progressive funders such as Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman and Leah Hunt‑Hendrix to Indivisible’s funding ecosystem — typically as part of broader Democracy Alliance‑style networks — but those claims often come from secondary reporting and donor‑network disclosures rather than a single, transparent Indivisible donor list [9]. Investigations note Indivisible’s reliance on many small donors (early reporting cited more than $2.2 million from roughly 30,000 small individual donations) while also acknowledging “some foundation money and dollars from high net worth individuals,” but Indivisible declined to release a comprehensive donor list when requested [4].
4. What is traceable vs. what remains opaque
Traceable, line‑item sums exist where funders are required or choose to report grants (Open Society and many Tides grants are documented) and where the FEC requires PAC and reported independent‑expenditure filings [1] [5] [8]. What remains opaque are undisclosed large individual gifts and foundation “general support” transfers that funders sometimes decline to itemize publicly; InfluenceWatch and Indivisible’s own reporting acknowledge that a single donor can comprise large shares of annual revenue (one donor accounted for 23% of 2023 revenue and 14% in 2022) without full public naming in every case [1]. Independent watchdogs note the legal boundaries: 501(c) groups like Indivisible are not always obliged to disclose donor names if they are not making direct candidate ad buys, which helps explain gaps in the public record [4].
5. Bottom line and journalistic caveats
Public documentation confirms multi‑million grants from Open Society entities and multi‑hundred‑thousand to million‑level gifts from Tides affiliates, PAC contributions and hundreds of itemized individual PAC donors in recent cycles, plus a substantial base of small donors; however, the complete roster of high‑net‑worth individual donors and some foundation “general support” allocations is not available in public filings and has been withheld by Indivisible when pressed [1] [2] [3] [4]. Reporting sources vary in rigor — foundation grant databases and FEC/OpenSecrets filings are concrete; some secondary articles and donor‑network summaries link prominent names without always providing primary grant documentation — so assessment requires holding both the confirmed line items and the acknowledged disclosure limits in view [7] [9].