In an August 12 email to supporters, the group called Indivisible, which is organizing nationwide anti-Trump protests, claimed that it’s “a grassroots movement that relies on grassroots funding,” and pitched for contributions as small as $7.
Indivisible adds, “Grassroots donations, not foundations or large gifts, are our single largest source of funding. That means we’re accountable to, and fueled by, Indivisibles on the ground.”
The claim is highly suspect.
Indivisible has been the recipient of $7.6 million from the so-called Open Society Foundations (OSF), funded by Hungarian billionaire George Soros. Significantly, OSF appears to have provided the cornerstone grant in 2017 that allowed it to get off the ground.
The giving vehicles of other billionaires were also present early on. The Sandler Foundation, whose assets now top $500 million, provided Indivisible Civic $500,000 in 2017 and another $2 million from 2018 to 2020. The Sandler Foundation was funded by Herbert and Marion Sandler, who sold Golden West Financial Corporation in 2006 for $2.4 billion. The Sandlers pioneered the “Pick-A-Pay” adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) that contributed to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis.
An even more controversial billionaire donor is LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. Through an entity called Investing in US, managed by a political operative named Dmitri Mehlhorn, Hoffman reportedly contributed to Indivisible. Hoffman has been associated with a series of political dirty tricks and false flag operations over the years, not to mention funding the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit against President Trump.
During a discussion with another billionaire, Peter Thiel, just days before the July 2024 attempt on President Trump’s life, Hoffman quipped, “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr,’” after Thiel sarcastically noted that Hoffman’s funding of anti-Trump lawsuits had made him a “martyr.” Immediately following the incident, Mehlhorn emailed journalists suggesting the assassination attempt might have been “staged” by Trump, comparing it to tactics used by Vladimir Putin.
Big infusions of billionaire money have no doubt allowed Indivisible to diversify its funding, but one thing is for sure: the group does not support itself in $7 increments. Indivisible is actually three related organizations called Indivisible Project, a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization, Indivisible Civics, a 501(c)(3) foundation, and Indivisible Action, a political action committee. According to the most recent publicly available documents, the combined annual revenue for the three groups is north of $15 million.
Unlike Soros, most billionaires do not route their controversial donations through foundations that publicly disclose their grants. Instead, the money is placed in so-called “donor-advised funds” that then disperse the money pursuant to the donor’s instructions, with the advantage of no requirement for public disclosure. On the Left, the Tides Foundation and the Arabella Advisors network are “dark money” vehicles. We don’t know if or how much the Sandlers and Hoffmans currently give, but we do know that the Indivisible entities receive large sums from wealthy individuals whose donations are invisible.
Indivisible is the highest-profile organizer of a series of nationwide anti-Trump protests, including the “Tesla Takedown” and “No Kings” events. It serves as sort of a vanguard for a broader protest coalition called “50501” that boasts it has promoted nationwide demonstrations on ten separate days in 2025. The next round is centered around Labor Day, and the ironic theme “Workers over Billionaires.”
On August 24, George Soros’ 39-year-old son Alex, who now runs the OSF with its $25 billion war chest, posted on X a Substack article by Democratic strategist Dan Pfeiffer that argues that recent self-examination by liberals about their use of “woke” terms like “birthing person” misses the point. Instead, “The real question Democrats must confront is how Republicans successfully branded the party in ways divorced from reality.”
This is an odd thesis to be promoted by Soros. If he so is concerned about how liberals are perceived, he might consider what his own OSF underwrites. The official “Indivisible Guide” for protesters repeatedly calls Trump a fascist and a dictator, using terms like “fascistic clown show” to characterize Trump supporters. The protests themselves are marked by profane and hyperbolic messaging, and sometimes violence, which cannot be disowned when the rhetoric is so extreme.
Peter Flaherty is Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center.
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