DataRepublican published a searchable spreadsheet on May 12th that detailed the Open Society Foundation's grant database, including nearly 20k grants totaling $7.8 billion.
Approximately 27% of the grant money—just over $2.1 billion—was directed to nearly 5k recipients in the United States focused on a wide range of democrat and progressive causes (e.g., open borders, racial and economic justice, transgender rights, housing justice, the green agenda, reproductive justice).
Some of the biggest winners in the U.S. included Sixteen Thirty Fund ($99M), Democracy PAC ($76M), New Venture Fund ($65M), NEO Philanthropy/Action Fund ($60M), America Votes ($51M), Tides Advocacy ($38M) and Future Forward USA Action ($36M).
The Workings Families Organization received $24M -- this is the party that endorsed Chris Murphy, Jahana Hayes, John Larson, and 80 state legislature candidates in Connecticut after asking whether candidates supported things like "non-citizen voting in their local elections" and if they supported expanding Husky insurance to ALL illegals.
Speaking of Senator Murphy, his girlfriend, Tara McGowan, received $20M for her media company, Courier Newsroom.
Other notable awardees include the ACLU, the American Bar Foundation, the Gender & Sexuality Alliances Network, GLSEN, Indivisible, Make the Road Action Fund, March On, Media Matters, the Movement for Black Lives, the NAACP, Planned Parenthood, the UNITE HERE Action Fund, and the list goes on and on.
At least nine individual grants specifically mentioned Connecticut, for a total of $2 million.
Center for Children's Advocacy received $250k in 2016 to support the implementation of restorative justice diversion programs inside Connecticut youth prisons.
Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance Inc. received $200k in 2022 to provide general support for the organization which offers "harm reduction" programs to people who use drugs, those experiencing homelessness, and those engaging in sex work.
CT Equity Now received $250k in 2021 to support social welfare activities that included dismantling structural racism within the state of Connecticut.
Fellowship worth $61k was awarded in 2016 to launch a Black and Brown Student Union across the state of Connecticut to protect students’ rights by ending school discipline policies and practices that rely on "policing, violence, and surveillance."
Fellowship work $61k was awarded in 2020 to support a project to educate the public about their legal rights and to organize Black and Brown youth in Bridgeport, Connecticut, targeted by policing, the criminal legal system, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to promote "police accountability."
National Housing Trust received $100k in 2017 to support a Connecticut-focused pilot to demonstrate how a new “housing driven” solution – one that converts multi-family rental properties near high performing schools to mixed income and race communities using a blend of public and private resources – can create opportunity for low-income minority families.
UConn received $1 million in 2022 to support the establishment of the Wiktor Osiatyński Chair in Human Rights endowment at the University of Connecticut.
Yale University received $20k in 2016 to conduct a policy and legal analysis that outlined the legal strategies that Native American tribes in the United States could utilize, on the basis of tribal sovereignty claims, to gain greater access to affordable hepatitis C treatment.
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