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Foundation to Promote Open Society
5 published research records · Latest research 2026-09-15
LIVING DOSSIER
About Foundation to Promote Open Society
Published research connects Foundation to Promote Open Society with Western States Center: IRS-derived 2019–2024 grant records identify approximately $385,000 from Foundation to Promote Open Society to Western States Center across four grants.
From Western States Center receives funding from New Venture and Foundation to Promote Open Society, overlapping other mapped national nodes (2026-09-15). Recorded status: Verified direct grant relationships; Common Ground contact with WSC does not establish that these funders supported Common Ground or Idaho activity. This sourced connection summary is the current introduction; read the full record for dates and limits.
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Foundation to Promote Open Society’s separate funding of Hopewell likewise cannot be traced down this chain absent earmarking evidence.
The largest identified institutional sources include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund at approximately $332.9 million, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation about $73.8 million, Foundation to Promote Open Society about $28.3 million, Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation about $20.4 million, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation about $19.9 million.
Separate exact-name/EIN searches likewise did not surface a direct Foundation to Promote Open Society/Open Society Policy Center or Western Futures Fund grant to either Idaho Solutions entity.
Route A: Foundation to Promote Open Society (a separate Open Society philanthropic entity already documented elsewhere) gave Hopewell Fund approximately $28.3M across 13 grants from 2020-2024; Hopewell then funded Unite America Institute, Article IV, The Fairness Project, New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, and Global Impact, all of which sit on separately documented routes into Idaho advocacy/election networks.
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Connections
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Organizations
Western States Center
Stated in published researchIRS-derived 2019–2024 grant records identify approximately $385,000 from Foundation to Promote Open Society to Western States Center across four grants.
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People
- George Soros · 1 shared record
PACs
- Way Back PAC · 1 shared record
Organizations
- Hopewell Fund · 4 shared records
- New Venture Fund · 3 shared records
- Western Futures Fund · 3 shared records
- Global Impact · 2 shared records
- Idaho Solutions · 2 shared records
- Idahoans for Open Primaries · 2 shared records
- Open Society Policy Center · 2 shared records
- Sixteen Thirty Fund
SOURCED RECORD
Research & sources
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Connection research · 2026-09-15Hopewell→Global Impact→GISWF→Western Futures creates a documented multi-hop route to Idaho advocacy and election nodes
Recorded status: Verified organization-to-organization grant chain; same-dollar tracing, earmarking and centralized control explicitly unproved.
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