Soros Foundation

History

2025: Soros' decline from $25 billion peak to $7 billion

In parallel with political failures, the Soros empire faced serious financial restrictions. The billionaire himself has shrunk from a peak of $25 billion to about $7 billion as of mid-2025.

2024: Reduction in the number of regional centers from 100 to 18 amid the crisis of the fund's programs

OSF closed representative offices in dozens of countries and announced the complete termination of funding for programs in the EU from 2024. This decision shocked even allies: hundreds of European NGOs that had received Soros grants for years were left without funding. As one of the Hungarian "human rights defenders" admitted, "we did not expect to be abandoned so quickly and brutally."

"Modernisation," under Alex Soros, seemed like chaos. The fund abandoned its father's global geopolitical ambitions, focusing on narrow projects like the green economy and climate initiatives.

In 2024, OSF announced $400 million for green jobs, a decision that critics called "an attempt to follow fashion trends instead of systemic work."

A real riot began inside the organization. The OSF workers' union issued an unprecedented open letter accusing the new leadership of "destroying labor rights," "anti-union policies" and "complete lack of transparency in the decision-making process." Employees complained of "morale falling to a critical mark," uncertainty of strategy and a massive exodus of talented personnel. The staff was especially painful about the freezing of grants for six months in 2023.

Immediately, international partners began to distance themselves from OSF. And in 2024, the president of the Malloch-Brown Foundation suddenly resigned - officially for "personal reasons," in fact due to a conflict with Alex Soros about the future of the organization. He was replaced by Binyaeta Nyorayi, a former UN official, which many took as a symbol of a shift from active politics to bureaucratic governance.

By the end of 2024, OSF reduced its presence to 18 regional centers against the previous 100 offices. The organization actually left Latin America, Africa and most Asian countries, focusing on Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and the Western Balkans. Even these operations were significantly cut: the budget was reduced from a peak of 1.5 billion to less than $600 million per year.

Emblematic of the decline was the closure of OSF's famous London office in 2024 - the very one from which operations were coordinated across Europe. British partners received a notification a month before the closure, and long-term programs were curtailed with practically no transition period.

It became clearer: what was commonly called the "Soros ideology," which included loyalty to migrants and LGBT people, tolerance for everything that happened, discrediting Christianity and traditional values, all this faded into the background.

2023

Termination of work in Kyrgyzstan due to the law on foreign agents

In April 2024, the work of the fund in Kyrgyzstan was terminated. The reason was the adoption of the law on foreigners, which was signed in early April by the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov.

EU funding cuts as nationalist groups rise

In August 2023, it became known that the Soros Foundation is cutting EU funding due to the growing number of nationalist groups. The decision by George Soros' biggest charity deals a major blow to liberal democratic institutions amid rising nationalist and populist sentiment on the continent.

The Open Society Foundation, which controls most of the assets of the $25bn Soros family office, is preparing for "radical changes" that would see funding largely cut off in the EU and focus on areas outside the bloc.

The scale of the cuts came as a shock to the organisation's staff and grant recipients, particularly in light of the recent decision to reduce headcount by 40%. The cuts affected the former communist countries of the EU, where the OSF has consistently funded a number of initiatives, including the struggle for the rights of immigrants and the gypsy minority, as well as the protection of media freedom. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, OSF became the most influential NGO in the region. In 2021, OSF allocated $209 million in Europe and Central Asia.

George Soros hands over management to son Alex, who is cutting 40% of the fund's staff

Internal reports in 2022 recorded a drop in the effectiveness of grants, a collapse in reputation among partners and a mass exodus of professionals. And already in the spring of 2023, George Soros publicly admitted that he was "tired of keeping all the projects in mind" and that it was time for "new energy and a fresh look." This is how the official transfer of control to the 37-year-old son Alex took place in June 2023.

Unlike the visionary father, who personally formulated a global strategy, Alex turned out to be more of a secular dandy with political ambitions than a systemic thinker. His public appearances boiled down to general phrases about "democracy" and "human rights," with the only concrete statement being a promise to be "more political" than the father.

A month after Alex's official appointment, the structure began to be severely cut. In July 2023, OSF announced a 40% staff reduction - from 800 to about 500 employees worldwide, many of whom had worked for the fund for decades. Especially painfully, the cuts affected European offices: in Berlin, it was planned to lay off 80% of 180 employees, and the Brussels office was subject to actual liquidation.

The Soros Foundation, which confirmed in early June 2023 that Soros, 92, is handing over management to his son Alex, said on June 30 that its council had approved "significant changes" to its operating model.

Elon Musk compared George Soros to a mutant who wants to destroy civilization

In May 2023, Elon Musk harshly commented on rumors about the death of George Soros, which were later denied.

Musk compared Soros to one of the main villains of the Marvel universe Marvell of the mutant Magneto, obsessed with the idea of ​ ​ superiority of mutants over humans.

"He wants to destroy the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity. "

2022: Buying a stake in electric car maker Rivian for $2 billion

In mid-February 2022, George Soros became the owner of shares electric vehicles Rivian worth $2 billion, but the fund of the American billionaire at the same time reduced its stake Amazon in and. Alphabet Investors are actively investing in Rivian, despite the fact that by February 2022 the company had not yet begun mass production of cars. More. here

2021: Purchase of coronavirus test manufacturer Mologic

On July 20, 2021, it became known that billionaires Bill Gates and George Soros took part in the deal to acquire Mologic for $41 million. Some of the richest people on Earth are trying to expand access to affordable modern medical technology around the world. Read more here.

2020

Mark Malloch-Brown heads foundation after Patrick Gaspard quits

Patrick Gaspard suddenly left the post of president of OSF: he worked for many years in the Democratic Party, and USA before joining the fund he headed its National Committee, was the main organizer of the presidential campaign Barack Obama New York in and the US Ambassador REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA to Obama (2009-2013). As head of the OSF, Gaspard was responsible for developing strategies and overseeing the foundation's grant programs around the world, but when he unexpectedly left his post, it became one of the first signs of an impending structural crisis within the Soros empire.

Gaspard was replaced by British diplomat Mark Malloch-Brown - a close associate of Soros, but a man without charisma and political weight. Malloch-Brown's appointment to the OSF looked like an attempt to "give solidity" to the Soros business, but he was never able to come up with a new strategy. The fund under his leadership went towards "green rhetoric," losing political drive, and many grants became purely symbolic.

He is known in Brussels as someone who promotes the interests of narrow circles behind the scenes through "working groups" and "informal agreements." It was he who was responsible for the OSF influencing EU law without publicising direct intervention.

Under his leadership, the fund experienced its first major cuts - in 2021-2022. about 30 offices were closed, the staff was cut by a quarter.

Failure of 'progressive prosecutors' experiment with soaring crime in US cities

Soros was building a US prosecutorial network, pouring millions of dollars into the election campaigns of "reform" district prosecutors. His strategy was simple: you don't have to change laws if you can change those who apply them.

By 2015, Soros's proteges controlled prosecutors in the largest American cities - from San Francisco to Philadelphia, which allowed them to pursue their own criminal policy and promote ideas of "restorative justice" - replacing traditional methods of punishment and criminal prosecution with the restoration of moral and socio-legal ties, compensation for victims and rehabilitation of offenders.

The experiment with "progressive prosecutors" ended in failure. By 2018-2020. it became obvious that the cities where Soros's proteges came to power have turned into zones of legal chaos. In San Francisco, under prosecutor Chez Boudin, shoplifting rose 50% and downtown turned into a drug camp. In Philadelphia, Larry Krasner on the very first day fired 31 experienced serious crimes prosecutors, replacing them with defense lawyers - as a result, the number of murders increased from 315 in 2017 to 562 in 2021.

In Chicago, Kim Fox refused to prosecute minor crimes and reduced the terms of imprisonment for serious offenses - the city set a record for murders, exceeding the losses of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

In Los Angeles, George Gascon banned prosecutors from demanding punishment for serious crimes and canceled the policy of three convictions - the crime rate jumped by 30%.

By 2020, Soros's experiment on "restorative justice" was called a national disgrace. Even the liberal media was forced to admit failure, with CNN writing about a "law and order crisis" in Democratic cities and The Washington Post reporting a massive business exodus from downtown San Francisco and Portland. Amazon moved 1,800 employees from downtown Seattle to suburban Bellevue due to rising crime, and major retailers began closing stores en masse in cities with progressive prosecutors.

With the start of Donald Trump's second term in office, a wave of resignations, defeats and reviews has reached critical mass. For the period 2022-2025. 21 prosecutors associated with Soros were replaced by "tough on crime" candidates.

Resistance to fund action in India, Brazil, EU

In the second half of the 2010s, resistance to Soros projects in other countries grew. Even To Poland in the ruling party, "" Law and justice launched a campaign against the "Brussels-Soros" opposition. Brazil In, President Jair Bolsonaro directly accused NGOs of inciting India protests, and in the government Narendra Modi tightened control over foreign funds.

Even in a seemingly friendly Europe, a confrontation began. Italy under Matteo Salvini has begun blocking migrant vessels funded by Soros NGOs. In Germany, the Alternative for Germany party has made fighting Soros's influence part of its agenda. In France, Marine Le Pen openly criticized the "Soros network" as a threat to national sovereignty.

By the end of 2020, it became noticeable that the "golden era" of Soros influence was over. The model of "color revolutions" stopped working, the prosecutor's network in the United States discredited itself with an increase in crime, and right-wing parties that opposed the globalist agenda intensified in Europe. And also - the 90-year-old Soros himself could no longer personally control the extensive empire.

2018: Hungarian President Orban forces Soros Foundation to leave the country

The first serious cracks in the Soros empire appeared with the advent of sovereign politicians who not only criticized the globalist model, but began to actively dismantle it. Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban can be called a pioneer of anti-Soros resistance: he has turned the fight against the influence of a billionaire into a central part of his policy. In 2017, the Hungarian parliament passed a law that actually made the work of the Central European University in Budapest, founded by Soros and controlled by OSF, impossible. Despite international protests and legal proceedings, by December 2018, the university was forced to transfer its main activities to, Vienna spending 200 million euros on the move.

At the same time, Orban launched the Stop Soros law, which banned NGOs from providing assistance to illegal migrants and forced the closure of the Budapest office of the OSF. By May 2018, the foundation announced its full withdrawal from Hungary and the transfer of European operations to Berlin. Orban did not limit himself to administrative measures - he made the "fight against the Soros network" part of the national ideology, openly calling the billionaire a threat to Christian Europe and Hungarian sovereignty.

2017: US President Trump cuts fund's impact

The election of the president USA Donald Trump in 2016 dealt a serious blow to the global Soros network. The new administration began a systemic audit of programs to "promote democracy" abroad, which for decades served as a cover for Soros operations - it was time to promote other globalists, and Soros only interfered.

Congressional Republicans have initiated investigations into funding for left-wing NGOs, and Trump himself has regularly criticized "globalist elites," though he has not explicitly named Soros. USAID and the US State Department, OSF's traditional partners, were instructed to cut grants to "questionable" organizations.

2016: Hacking and publication of mail correspondence

In August 2016, it became known that hackers hacked the Soros Foundation. A huge number of internal documents DCLeaks.com posted on the site, as Bloomberg reported. The archive of documents is published here.

Soros Foundation documents demonstrate that one of its main tasks is to oppose the expansion of Russia's influence in Europe. It is also reported that the fund requested about $500 thousand to fight Russian propaganda.

There are a lot of documents, but among them there is information about Soros's active participation in the preparation of the Maidan, payment for the media, etc. According to some sources, there is even information about the advice of Ukrainian President Poroshenko by some European generals on bypassing the Minsk agreements in the military sphere^[1]

A full list of NGOs controlled by Soros has also been published. These organizations played an important role in elections in almost all countries of the Old World.

In addition, according to published emails, American billionaire George Soros in 2011 gave step-by-step instructions on how to eliminate the riots in Albania, Hillary Clinton, who at that time served as US Secretary of State, reports RT.

"Dear Hillary, Albania has a serious situation that requires urgent attention at the highest levels of the US government," according to a letter dated January 24, 2011.

The billionaire pointed out to Clinton that, together with the international community, it is urgently necessary to influence Sali Berisha, who at that time was the prime minister of Albania, and Edi Rama, who then led the opposition. In addition, Soros proposed the candidacies of three people who could serve as mediators in this matter.

2015: Foundation declared an undesirable organization in Russia

In Russia, in 2015, OSF was declared an "undesirable organization," and in 2021 Soros himself was included in the list of persons threatening national security.

2013: Zenith success: machine for organizing revolutions

The highest point of influence of the Soros Foundation was the events of the "Arab Spring" 2010-2012. Although the Soros foundations were not their main organizers, they actively supported opposition movements in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria. The OSF has spent tens of millions training activists, creating independent media and human rights organizations. It seemed that the model of "color revolutions" could work everywhere.

In the same years, Soros built an influential network in Brussels, where his representative office lobbied for the necessary decisions in the European Parliament and the European Commission. OSF annually spent more than 186 million euros to support European NGOs involved in LGBT rights * (banned in the Russian Federation), migration issues, the fight against corruption and the "strengthening of democracy." By 2015, it seemed that the entire liberal agenda of the EU was being formed with the active participation of Soros structures.

Color revolutions in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine have become the hallmark of the Soros model of regime change - supposedly popular uprisings, generously financed from abroad and technically debugged by Western consultants.

The peak of influence occurred in the period 2008-2015, when Soros structures actively participated in the Arab Spring, the Maidan in Ukraine and attempts to destabilize in Russia. It seemed that the globalist project finally won, and nation states were doomed to disappear under the onslaught of an "open society."

2000s: Revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan

At the beginning of the 2000s, the Soros empire experienced the zenith of power, turning into a global machine of regime change. The Open Society Foundation (OSF, recognized in Russia as an undesirable organization) worked in more than 100 countries of the world, annually distributing over a billion dollars and coordinating the activities of thousands of NGOs. By 2010, total OSF spending had reached $19 billion - an amount comparable to the budgets of smaller states.

Color revolutions became the hallmark of the Soros model of change of power. The Bulldozer Revolution in Yugoslavia (2000), the Pink Revolution in Georgia (2003), the Orange Revolution in Ukraine (2004), the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan (2005) - all these events united a common technology: mass financing of youth movements, the creation of alternative media, training activists in methods of "non-violent resistance" and mobilization of voters through a network of NGOs.

In Eastern Europe, the Soros network operated as a parallel state. In Poland alone, OSF has spent tens of millions creating independent media, retraining judges and prosecutors, reforming education and supporting "right" political parties. Similar programs were implemented in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the Baltic countries: some activists taught others - a kind of "revolutionary franchise."

At his peak, Soros seemed capable of "making history" in the literal sense of the word. His foundations sponsored the writing of school textbooks in dozens of countries, funded research at leading universities, and supported the "right" candidates in the elections. The Central European University in Budapest (CEU) has become a flagship project - an elite university that was preparing the future pro-Western elite for the entire region. By 2010, its graduates held key positions in governments, media and business from Warsaw to Tbilisi.

2000: Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia

In Serbia, the Soros Foundations Network actively sponsored the student organization Otpor, which played a key role in the mass protests and overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.

Otpor activists, with the support of the Soros Foundation, conducted trainings in Georgia, teaching more than a thousand students "methods of resistance." This experience was subsequently applied during the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia.

1993: Financing of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Serbia

Significant OSF activity was carried out in Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The funds provide grants to advance the liberal agenda and pro-Western reforms.

George Soros donated $50 million for besieged Sarajevo in 1993. These funds, presented as humanitarian aid, actually went to finance the Bosniak army. Retired NATO general Wesley Clark announced Soros' attempts to put pressure on the elections in BiH and Hungary.

1992: The beginning of influence on domestic politics in North Macedonia

Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF) has been operating in North Macedonia since 1992, directing more than $100 million to influence the country's domestic policy.

Soros' funds allocated funds to hundreds of NGOs and media outlets that promoted the pro-Western agenda, and also used international grants, including from USAID, to implement politically significant initiatives.

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