A recent profile article on Alex Soros implied that the younger Soros’ public profile in the past few years has damaged the family brand. Alex is the heir to the progressive fundraising network of the late liberal megadonor George Soros.
New York Magazine published an article about Alex Soros’s penthouse this week. The piece says that the Soros family’s Open Society Foundations haven’t benefited from Soros’s seeming lack of care for public opinion, and that the penthouse serves as a symbol of this.
“The setting itself is a testament to a certain indifference to public opinion on Alex’s part — or perhaps a lack of awareness,” according to the narrative.
As is his habit after meeting with heads of state and government leaders, he posted images from a fundraiser he hosted at his apartment for vice presidential candidate Tim Walz on social media last October, causing a public relations nightmare. (According to an ex-OSF official, Alex enjoys amassing “shiny objects.”)
“It was deemed unhelpful to a presidential ticket straining to underscore its regularness that the son of the 94-year-old hedge-fund billionaire accused of puppeteering the Democratic Party was publicly advertising his centrality to the election effort from a New York City penthouse.”
A photo of Soros in his penthouse with Walz and a vice presidential candidate who was said to appeal to working-class and rural voters went viral, drawing harsh condemnation on social media.
“This guy goes around saying he’s a small town midwestern guy who understands the struggles of the middle class and then goes to hang out at the floating home in the sky of the world’s biggest billionaire nepo baby,” Greg Price commented on the website X at the period.
At the time, journalist Jerry Dunleavy remarked on X that “a post like this does nothing to help Kamala Harris & Tim Walz win — if anything, it hurts them.” Soros would never publish anything like this, would he? In order to make his authority and influence known inside the upcoming presidential campaign.
According to an article in New York Magazine, Alex Soros’ “fondness for collecting powerful figures embarrasses people at the foundation.”
It further highlights the impact he had. OSF is second only to the Gates Foundation in size among U.S. philanthropic foundations, according to some estimates. It disperses around $1.5 billion annually, with a portion of it going to liberal causes and a portion to major dark-money organizations linked to the Democratic Party, such as America Votes, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, and the pro-Harris expenditure organization Future Forward USA Action.
Soros has a Rolodex that contains some of the most influential Democrats in the party, and AWN Digital has chronicled his web presence, which includes all the images he takes with Democratic lawmakers in recent years. On more than twenty-two occasions while Biden was in office, Soros met with Biden and Harris in the White House.
Since 2018, he has posted hundreds of photos on his social media accounts featuring prominent Democrats in the House and Senate. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York are the two most visible. At least nine times did Alex meet with Schumer, whom he called his “good friend.”
Even though he has referred to Pelosi as the “greatest Speaker of the House in American History!” Soros met with her at least eight times.
Even though it’s a fraction of his father’s total donations, Soros has given millions to Democrats in recent years. He was one of the biggest contributors to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020, giving over $700,000. According to federal forms, he donated a maximum of $6,600 to Joe Biden’s campaign during the 2024 cycle.
He has donated over $5 million to federal political accounts since the 2018 elections. According to the records, his biggest gift during this time was $2 million to the Senate Majority PAC, which was connected with Schumer.
He’s also provided hundreds of thousands in dollars to the Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund, Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Many of his tens of thousands of dollars in contributions were maximum contributions to state Democratic parties and individual candidates.
That Soros was “probably the biggest liberal donor of the most recent election cycle” is mentioned in the article, along with the fact that the Soros network spent hundreds of millions of dollars last election cycle attempting to elect Democrats and promote progressive causes. However, the exact amount is “hard to know for sure because of untrackable dark-money spending.”
