OVERVIEW: The Alexander Soros Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to promoting civil rights, social justice, and education both in the United States and abroad. It also gives out an annual award to activists working at the nexus of environmentalism and human rights.
IP TAKE: The foundation keeps a low profile and does not accept unsolicited proposals.
PROFILE: Established in 2012, Alexander Soros Foundation was established by Alexander Soros, a son of billionaire George Soros, who launched Open Society Foundations. Alexander is a recent UC Berkeley PhD. The foundation does not maintain a website, which limits information available on its grantmaking priorities and activities. According to tax filings, the Alexander Soros Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to promoting civil rights, social justice, and education both in the United States and abroad.
The foundation’s Alex Soros Foundation Award for Environmental and Human Rights Activism supports activists working at the nexus of environmentalism and human rights. Alex Soros is the founding chair of Bend the Arc Jewish Action: a Jewish Partnership for Justice and sits on on the board of his father’s Open Society Foundations, which supports social justice and human rights causes.
Grants range between about $83,000 to $450,000. In a recent year, the foundation gave away $1.8 million in a recent year. Learn more about this funder’s local giving by examining its recent tax records. Past grantees include Global Witness, an “international NGO established in 1993 that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide” ; Equal Justice Initiative; Rainforest Foundation; and Libraries Without Borders, where Soros has sat on the board.
The foundation keeps a low profile and does not accept unsolicited proposals.
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Alexander Soros Foundation
c/o SFM 250 W 55th St, #27 Fl
New York, NY 10019