Have Minnesota local groups (Unidos MN, Defend the 612, Indivisible Twin Cities) published their grant or donor reports showing receipts from Open Society–affiliated entities?
Executive summary
No public, on-the-record grant or donor reports in the material provided show Unidos MN, Defend the 612, or Indivisible Twin Cities listing receipts directly from Open Society–affiliated entities; the Open Society Foundations does publish a searchable grants database that could be used to verify grantee relationships [1] [2], but the reporting and organizational profiles supplied here do not document any such receipts for those three Minnesota groups [3] [4] [5]. That absence in the supplied sources is not proof of absence — Open Society grants can appear under different affiliate names and nonprofits sometimes aggregate or protect donor identities — but based on the records and reporting provided, there are no published receipts tying these specific local groups to Open Society funding [6] [7].
1. The Open Society record-keeping that matters: a searchable grants database exists
The Open Society Foundations says it maintains a database of awarded grants, fellowships and past recipients and describes a mix of project and general support that it awards to organizations worldwide, which is the public starting point for confirming whether any group was a grantee [2] [6]; the foundations’ public-facing pages explain that most grants are made directly and can be searched, so the authoritative route to verify a connection is the Open Society grants search itself [1] [2].
2. What the reporting shows about Unidos MN: financials but no Open Society line-item
Unidos MN’s external profile in InfluenceWatch documents a big jump in grants and contributions between 2021 and 2022 and lists specific donors and revenue totals for 2022, but the InfluenceWatch entry provided does not show an Open Society–affiliated grant on Unidos MN’s reported revenue lines in that summary material [3]; Unidos MN’s own site is described as a grassroots Latine-led organization, but the provided snippets do not include a donor ledger or a Schedule B-style disclosure linking it to Open Society [8] [3].
3. Indivisible Twin Cities and Indivisible networks: national reporting, local silence on Open Society ties
Indivisible Twin Cities is presented in the sources as an all-volunteer local chapter relying on small donations for operating costs [5] [9], while Indivisible national entities publish consolidated financials claiming institutional support and healthy fiscal positions [7]; none of the supplied Indivisible materials or profiles explicitly list Open Society Foundations or its affiliates as direct donors to the Twin Cities chapter, nor do the provided Open Society past-grants snippets show a matching award to that local chapter [5] [7] [6].
4. Defend the 612: organizational presence but no donor reporting to Open Society in supplied sources
Defend the 612 appears in the materials only as an Action Network group listing — Action Network is a platform for progressive organizing — and no donor disclosures or grant receipts from Open Society–affiliated entities are documented for Defend the 612 in the provided excerpts [4]. The lack of a published receipt in these snippets again does not prove there is never a relationship, but the current reporting set contains no such evidence.
5. Why the absence in these sources is not definitive — disclosure rules, intermediaries, and privacy
Nonprofit donor disclosure is a contested area: federal and state rules, court decisions and organizational policies shape what is publicly disclosed, and platforms exist for both public grant databases (Open Society’s) and for protecting donor identities; critics argue disclosure prevents foreign influence while defenders cite free association and privacy, all of which means grant links can be visible in some places and deliberately opaque in others [10] [11] [12]. Additionally, institutional funding can flow through intermediary organizations or umbrella entities, and Open Society itself uses multiple country and program affiliates that may appear under different names in grant lists [2] [13], so an absence in a single public search or local profile does not definitively rule out indirect funding.
6. Bottom line and next verification steps
Based on the Open Society materials and the organizational profiles supplied here, there are no published grant or donor reports in this reporting set showing Unidos MN, Defend the 612, or Indivisible Twin Cities received funds explicitly from Open Society–affiliated entities [1] [2] [6] [3] [5]; the recommended next verification steps — search Open Society’s awarded-grants database directly for those exact organization names and check each group’s IRS Form 990s or Schedule B where available, and look for intermediary grantees that might route funding — are consistent with how Open Society and nonprofits document grants and donor relationships [6] [14] [15]. The present supplied sources do not show published receipts tying these Minnesota locals to Open Society funding, but they also illustrate structural reasons why some funding relationships may not appear in the excerpts provided [11] [2].