What donors and foundations have publicly reported grants to Indivisible or its affiliates (with amounts and years)?
Executive summary
Public reporting shows a mix of named high‑net‑worth donors, large foundation grants, and substantial individual fundraising connected to Indivisible and its affiliated entities, but the public record is fragmented: specific, line‑item grants are sporadically disclosed (for example, a $1.0 million grant to Indivisible Action is recorded in secondary reporting), while other totals and donors are reported only as aggregates or via investigative summaries rather than full grant listings [1] [2] [3].
1. Named high‑net‑worth donors and specific large grants cited in reporting
Journalistic and watchdog summaries have repeatedly tied individual donors to Indivisible’s early growth, naming Reid Hoffman as a prominent tech donor and pointing to wealthy benefactors associated with Democracy Alliance networks—Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman and Leah Hunt‑Hendrix—as sources of support for the movement’s expansion in the first Trump administration (as reported in InfluenceWatch citing Kenneth Vogel/NYT) [1]. InfluenceWatch also records that one large, specific grant of $1.0 million was paid to Indivisible Action (the organization’s 527 affiliate), though its compilation states the rest of certain grant payments were reported as “general support” without recipient line‑items in that source [1].
2. Foundation grants and aggregate totals by year reported by public sources
Analyses of Indivisible’s revenue mix show heavy foundation involvement in certain years: Indivisible and Indivisible Civics reported combined receipts of $6.5 million for 2017, with roughly 40 percent from foundation grants, and later disclosed a combined $14.9 million in 2019 of which about 53 percent came from private foundations according to InfluenceWatch’s summary of annual reports [2]. Wikipedia’s compilation—drawing on public reporting—attributes “over $7.6 million” from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations to the Indivisible Project’s 501(c) body, though the encyclopedia entry does not provide year‑by‑year line items within the snippet provided here [4].
3. Recent cycle totals, individual giving, and what Indivisible reports publicly
Federal‑cycle tracking captures some financial flows: OpenSecrets reports Indivisible Project contributions in the 2024 election cycle at $2,501,804 and lists related PAC activity and outside spending figures for the cycle [5] [6]. Indivisible itself acknowledges a mix of small donors, major gifts and foundation grants in its published fundraising materials and programs—describing grant programs (like GROW) and a distributed fundraising mechanism for local groups—but the organization also notes compliance and reporting rules that affect disclosure [7] [8] [9]. KQED’s reporting confirms Indivisible told journalists it raised more than $2.2 million from some 30,000 individual donors since it began accepting donations, and that this sum included “some foundation money and dollars from high net worth individuals,” while the group declined repeated requests to name individual donors [3].
4. Transparency gaps, limitations in the public record, and why exact lists are elusive
Multiple sources emphasize that Indivisible’s mix of 501(c), charitable arm (Indivisible Civics/Indivisible Fund flows), and a 527 affiliate complicates disclosure: foundation grants to 501(c) or pass‑through mechanisms and “general support” items can appear aggregated in annual reports or Form 990s without donor line‑items, and Indivisible has in the past used fiscal sponsors and funder networks that obscure direct grant pathways in some public records [2] [1]. Secondary compilers (InfluenceWatch, Wikipedia) and journalists have reconstructed likely funders, but where a primary source or a Form‑990 line item was not provided in the reporting available here, the exact year, payer and payment amount for some named donors cannot be independently verified from the documents supplied [1] [4].
5. Bottom line: who is documented, and what remains to be corroborated
Documented public reporting identifies Reid Hoffman and Democracy‑Alliance‑linked donors (Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman, Leah Hunt‑Hendrix) as funders associated with Indivisible’s early expansion [1], records a reported $1.0 million grant to Indivisible Action [1], shows foundation‑heavy revenue mixes in 2017 and 2019 (combined $6.5M in 2017; $14.9M in 2019 with 53% from foundations) [2], and attributes “over $7.6 million” from Open Society Foundations in summaries [4]; however, full, auditable year‑by‑year grant lists with source‑by‑source amounts are not presented in the set of documents reviewed here, and Indivisible’s own public statements note donor privacy and legal/reporting constraints that limit available disclosures [3] [7] [8].