What specific initiatives or projects has Indivisible undertaken with George Soros' funding?
Executive summary
Indivisible has received multi‑million dollar grants from George Soros’s Open Society network over several years, a fact reported by watchdogs and mainstream outlets [1] [2] [3]. Public reporting ties that funding to broad organizational support and “social welfare” activities, but does not comprehensively map every dollar to named campaigns or local events [4] [5].
1. Funding magnitude and headline sources
Investigations and donor trackers report that Indivisible’s 501(c) arm has taken millions from Open Society Foundations and related Soros entities—figures cited in reporting range from “over $7.6 million” to “over $8 million” since 2017 [2] [1], and the Open Society Foundations maintains a public grants database that lists awarded grants though the provided snippets do not enumerate each Indivisible line item [4].
2. What the grants are described as funding
Available reporting consistently characterizes Soros‑linked grants to Indivisible as general organizational support or to “social welfare activities” rather than as narrowly earmarked payments for specific, named protests or single events; for example, one report describes a multi‑year OSF grant to Indivisible designated to support the grantee’s social welfare activities [5]. Open Society’s own grants pages document award activity to groups like Indivisible but, in the materials provided here, do not parse grant agreements into a list of exact programs funded [4].
3. Operations, national campaigns and local organizing stipends
Independent reporting has documented how Indivisible uses paid staff and provides stipends to local organizers as part of its national organizing model—reporting that Indivisible supplies financial support to local organizers and runs national efforts to protect incumbents and mobilize voters—actions consistent with the kind of operational expenses philanthropy typically underwrites [6] [2]. OpenSecrets shows Indivisible’s election‑cycle financial activity and political spending profiles but does not attribute those line items directly to any single donor in the sourcing provided here [7] [8].
4. Claims tying Soros money to specific protests or events — disputes and clarifications
Several local and national outlets have reported narratives that Soros directly paid for particular town halls, protests, or “No Kings” actions; some reporting notes Indivisible is a listed partner among many organizations for mass actions, while also clarifying OSF grants were not specifically for single protests [5] [3]. Local Indivisible chapters and event organizers have simultaneously pushed back against claims that particular local events were paid for by Soros, insisting many actions are funded by small donors and local support [9]. Thus, public journalism shows a pattern of broad institutional funding combined with denials that individual gatherings were Soros‑funded [5] [9].
5. What the reporting does not—and cannot—show from the sources provided
The sources assembled document the existence and scale of Open Society funding to Indivisible and describe general categories (organization support, social welfare activities, national campaigns), but they do not supply granular grant agreements tying Soros dollars to line‑item projects such as a named “Truth Brigade” or a specific town hall event [4] [1]. Where outside funders like Reid Hoffman are connected to a specific Indivisible project in reporting, that is separate from the Open Society relationship and is documented by other outlets [1]. The absence of a public, fully‑itemized grant‑to‑project ledger in the cited materials limits the ability to definitively state every program paid for by Soros funds [4].
6. Bottom line: what can be stated with confidence
It is indisputable in the record provided that Indivisible has received substantial sums from George Soros’s Open Society network and that those funds have supported Indivisible’s organizational capacity and social‑welfare‑style activities [1] [2] [5]. What cannot be fully demonstrated from these sources is a line‑by‑line mapping that shows Soros money directly underwriting every specific local protest, town hall or discrete public action, and Indivisible and its local chapters have both acknowledged receiving OSF support while denying that individual local events were directly funded by Soros [9] [3].