Michael Crow, president, Arizona State University, left, and George Soros al Festival dell'Economia di Trento | President.ASU.edu / Niccolò Caranti - Wikimedia-Creative Commons
Michael Crow, president, Arizona State University, left, and George Soros al Festival dell'Economia di Trento | President.ASU.edu / Niccolò Caranti - Wikimedia-Creative Commons
Arizona State University (ASU) has received at least $3 million from left wing political activist George Soros since 2020.
That’s according to a review of U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) non-profit 990 filings by Grand Canyon Times.
The filings show ten separate grants totaling $3,038,339 from Soros to the Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University.
Who is George Soros?
Soros is a "Democratic mega-donor," reported Politico, who "directed his wealth into an under-the-radar 2016 campaign to advance one of the progressive movement’s core goals — reshaping the American justice system." To that end, Soros spent "more than $17 million on local district attorney races across the country "in support of left-wing candidates," reported the NY Post.
His two primary organizations are the Open Society Foundations and the Foundation to Promote Open Society, which are "two multi-billion-dollar left-of-center advocacy grantmaking foundations" which have "funded the vast majority of the most prominent left-progressive advocacy groups in the United States," reported InfluenceWatch.
He also contributed "$15 million since 2016 to groups supporting pro-Palestinian protests" last October, following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, reported the NY Post. This includes contributions to the Tides Foundation, which is a supporter of "Illinois-based Adalah Justice Project, which on the day of the Oct. 7 massacre posted a photo on Instagram of a bulldozer tearing part of Israel’s border fence down and a caption: 'Israeli colonizers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison… no cage goes unchallenged.'"
Soros also contributed $250,000 to the Biden Victory Fund last September, and Fox News reported last week that “Soros has contributed over $3 million to at least five left-wing groups” in Texas to “beef up infrastructure and help Democrats make gains” in Texas.
“Global Network to Transform Higher Education"
In 2020, Soros announced that ASU is part of his “Global Network to Transform Higher Education,” to which Soros himself endowed $1 billion.
“The Central European University (CEU), which Soros founded, and Bard College will form the core of the new network,” said a Soros foundation press release. “They will partner with Arizona State University, a world leader in distance learning, and other institutions around the globe, such as the American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan and BRAC University in Bangladesh.”
ASU’s website also promotes applications for the “Soros Justice Fellowship.”
“The fellowships are part of a larger effort within the Open Society Foundations to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the United States by challenging the overreliance on incarceration and extreme punishment, and ensuring a fair and accountable system of justice,” says the ASU website.
At least three of the Soros grants to ASU came in 2022, the same year the university announced that its foundation "recorded a banner year" with $331 million in contributions and committments.
The ASU Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization that raises and manages private contributions for the university.
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How much money has George Soros given ASU since 2020?
Source: IRS 990s for Open Society Institute and Foundation to Promote Open Society
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