by Robert Schmad
An influential charity of left-of-center donors has launched an initiative forcing other philanthropic organizations to donate money to voter mobilization efforts ahead of the 2024 elections.
Democracy Fund, which was founded and is financed by liberal philanthropist Pierre Omidyar he gathered himself a group of 174 organizations and individuals who have committed to accelerate the disbursement of grants related to activities, including “stop voting” operations. The pledge calls on signatories to deliver the majority of election-related donations by the end of April, augment payments scheduled for later in the year, or streamline grant approval processes.
Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundation, liberal gloomy money giant Arabella Advisors, Tides and Democratic megadonor Susan Pritzker are among the major left-wing philanthropic players who have signed the pledge.
Omidyar, who founded eBay and has since become a prolific gamer investoris worth over $10.9 billion, According to to Bloomberg. Between 2004 and 2020, Omidyar donated approximately $1.2 billion through his various charities to a number of causes, mainly leftist, According to to the Capital Research Center report.
In 2020 in Omidyar gave Sixteen Thirty Fund, a immense Democratic-aligned political group, $45 million to support the Citizens’ Action Fund project, currently defunct voter turnout initiative focused on the topic of “strengthening[ing] those who are typically underrepresented in our democratic process,” ensuring they voted in 2020.
The group worked with liberal politicians and activists to organize local voter drives targeting low-propensity voters. According to to influence the watch.
In explaining his donation to the Civic Action Fund, Omidyar mentioned the importance of “supporting local voter outreach and engagement with young people and people of color.” Young people and minority voters favor the Democratic Party by vast majorities, with voters ages 18 to 29 and all non-white precincts favoring Biden in 2020 by double digits. According to to CNN’s exit poll.
During the 2020 election season, the Citizens Action Fund operated in 14 states, including the key states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to its website. According to Influence Watch, the group consisted of employees with ties to prominent Democrats such as former President Barack Obama and former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.
Many signatories of the Democracy Fund’s declaration “Everything by April” have clear ideological views.
Alex Soros, son of the influential liberal financier George Soros described himself as “more political” than his father. Arabella manages a network of nonprofit organizations that donates tens of millions each year to liberal causes, Tides includes a variety of organizational arms, including one of the largest transitional organizations of liberal philanthropists, and Pritzker has given millions for Democratic and otherwise left-wing political committees.
Arabella’s nonprofit network and the Soros family’s philanthropic endeavors have contributed vast sums to election spending in the past. Arabella’s nonprofit organizations used over $62 million for voter registration and mobilization activities in 2022, the midterm election year.
Much of Arabella’s spending also focused on getting Democrat-friendly demographics to the polls. The New Venture Fund, one of Arabella’s arms, has donated millions to the voter registration project, the group’sauthorized” by Democratic Party veteran John Podesta that: According to according to Influence Watch, “focuses on African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, low-income people, and other voter groups likely to lean left.”
Soros’s philanthropic empire, too gave millions for the 2016–2022 voter registration project. The 2020 voter registration project’s efforts netted President Biden between 1 million and 2.7 million votes, According to to the Capital Research Center report.
The Open Society Policy Center, part of the broader Soros network, gave $1.4 million for the Voto Latino Action Fund in 2022. The organization focuses on registering Latino voters and relaxing voting laws, According to to your website.
High voter turnout among Latinos was one of the reasons Democrats performed better than expected in the 2022 midterm elections, According to to Polityka.
“Voter registration nonprofits are simply a cost-effective way to achieve partisan electioneering results for Democrats while keeping donors completely anonymous and allowing them to take a tax deduction for their troubles,” Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, he previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Democracy Fund, Arabella, Tides and Open Society Foundations did not immediately respond to DCNF requests for comment.
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Robert Schmad is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Pierre Omidyar”, author: Omidyar Group. Cover photo “Vote Here Sign” by Tony Webster. CC BY 2.0.
