President Trump announced that his administration is investigating whether billionaire George Soros and affiliated left-wing groups financed the nationwide “No Kings” protests.
Speaking aboard Air Force One, Trump suggested that the demonstrations, which drew an estimated seven million participants across 2,700 U.S. locations, may have been “paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics.”
Soros’s Open Society Foundations have long supported progressive movements globally, and conservatives have frequently accused him of funding anti-Trump activism.
Reports indicate that the “No Kings” protests were organized and financed through a coalition of progressive foundations, labor unions, and advocacy groups.
Soros’s Open Society Foundations issued a $3 million grant to Indivisible, the primary organizer of the protests, officially labeled as funding for “social welfare activities.”
Indivisible managed data, communications, and logistics for the demonstrations. Consequently, Open Society denied directly funding the protests.
Indivisible has also financed networks tied to anti-Israel campus protests. The foundation’s spokesperson said grantees act independently within legal parameters, while Indivisible remains the central organizer managing participation in the nationwide rallies.
Additional support reportedly came from major unions such as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which helped finance transportation, volunteer coordination, and security across protest sites.
Other partner groups, including the ACLU, Human Rights Campaign, MoveOn, and Public Citizen, provided organizational and publicity resources.
This network of funding and coordination demonstrates that the “No Kings” movement was not a spontaneous grassroots uprising but a well-funded, politically driven campaign backed by established left-wing institutions.
Third-party trackers such as DataRepublican have mapped federal grant flows to several nonprofits connected with the protests.
These links do not prove that federal dollars directly funded protest operations, but they reveal that taxpayer-funded organizations are part of the wider network that helped power No Kings.
DataRepublican’s page titled “Nonprofits linked to the 14 June 2025 No Kings rally” lists every nonprofit for which the group has reconstructed federal grant flows tied to entities involved in the demonstrations.
The site describes itself as a tool for “connecting the dots between government grants, charities, and drawing connections to expose where the money flows.”
Among the entities identified is Indivisible, which received a $3 million two-year grant from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations “to support the grantee’s social welfare activities.”
The Tides Center also appears in DataRepublican’s “No Kings → Federal Grant Links,” and federal records show it as a recurring recipient of multi-million-dollar awards from AmeriCorps, the NSF STEM Education Program, and USAID assistance accounts.
The American National Red Cross is likewise listed in DataRepublican’s dashboard and is known to receive federal contracts and targeted support through HHS and other agencies as part of its congressionally chartered mandate.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is repeatedly named in coalition reports and in DataRepublican’s listings, with its own organizing platforms amplifying participation in coordination with Indivisible.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a major labor union cited in both coverage and DataRepublican’s list, intersects with federal funds through sub-awards and partner programs.
United Way of Central New York also appears in DataRepublican’s visualization as a funder node linked to other entities such as American National Red Cross, and many United Way chapters receive federal pass-through funding.
Other coalition partners named in reports, though without specific federal award lines, include the Human Rights Campaign, MoveOn, Public Citizen, National Nurses United, League of Conservation Voters, and United We Dream.
Anti-Israel organizations have also joined the No Kings protests, expanding the movement’s reach and drawing in groups with explicit socialist, communist, and foreign-linked affiliations.
Among these are “UAW Labor for Palestine” and “NYC Labor for Palestine,” both of which describe themselves as coalitions of union members advocating for an end to what they call “Israel’s genocide in Gaza.”
UAW Labor for Palestine was formed in October 2023 and has prioritized pressuring UAW leadership to adopt a Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) resolution targeting Israel.
The broader “Labor for Palestine” network, of which the UAW chapter is a part, is described by InfluenceWatch as a coalition of radical-left labor activists who oppose “Zionist control” within American labor movements and advocate for the eventual elimination of the State of Israel.
Labor for Palestine traces its origins to 2004, when it was founded by Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, and U.S. Labor Against the War, two organizations long associated with anti-Israel activism.
InfluenceWatch notes that the movement included international endorsing groups from Belgium, the Netherlands, and the Basque region of Spain at its launch, suggesting cross-border coordination among ideological allies.
While there is no public record confirming direct funding from foreign governments, the presence of international endorsements and overlapping campaigns indicates that the movement maintains global activist ties consistent with transnational left-wing organizing.
In addition to these groups, members of the Antifa network, designated by President Trump as a terrorist organization, were also embedded within the No Kings demonstrations.
Antifa’s participation aligns with the broader ideological composition of the protests, which now include far-left groups with communist and socialist leanings as well as pro-Palestinian blocs.
Their participation in the No Kings protests means that demonstration against President Trump’s policies now includes networks connected to socialist, communist, and foreign-affiliated entities.
This alignment mirrors a growing strategy among radical labor and political movements to integrate anti-Israel messaging into broader campaigns opposing capitalism, policing, and what they describe as American “imperialism.”