{"id":6338,"date":"2026-04-22T23:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=6338"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:20:23","slug":"southern-poverty-law-center-backers-include-george-soros-jpmorgan-george-clooney-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=6338","title":{"rendered":"Southern Poverty Law Center backers include George Soros, JPMorgan, George Clooney, OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n 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{}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been funded by big name businesses and philanthropists including George Soros, JPMorgan, ex-Apple CEO Tim Cook and George Clooney.<\/p>\n<p>The group \u2014 indicted Tuesday for allegedly funneling millions to the hate groups it says it is ideologically against \u2014 also holds over $786 million in assets, yet still solicits donations.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it took in $106 million in donated cash 2024, according to its latest available financial disclosures, yet still ran \u201curgent\u201d appeals for \u201cemergency\u201d cash.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, donations have been made by big name donors, many of whom pledged to the organization after clashes at a 2017 by \u201cUnite the Right\u201d white supremacist rally in Virginia, which resulted in the death of one protester.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel detail funds allegedly funneled by the Southern Poverty Law Center to extremist groups. <span class=\"credit\">Anadolu via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters at the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in 2017. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>That year, George Clooney\u2019s foundation donated $1 million, and longtime donor JPMorgan gave an additional $500,000 for \u201cdisaster relief,\u201d records show.<\/p>\n<p>Then-Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged $1 million, CBS reported, and MGM said it would match employee donations to the SPLC and other social justice groups, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Little did those donors know that the SPLC was allegedly sending money to one of the people involved in organizing the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally, according to the indictment from the Department of Justice, revealed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment the informant, known only as \u201cF-37,\u201d was paid $270,000 between 2015 and 2023 by the group.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>George Clooney, whose foundation donated $1 million to SPLC in 2017. <span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Southern Poverty Law Center headquarters in Montgomery, AL <span class=\"credit\">In Pictures via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other donors include George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundation, which pledged $75,000 in 2016 to \u201cconvene an \u2018Anti-Hate Table\u2019 of national anti-bias and Muslim, Arab, and South Asian community organizations,\u201d per its website.<\/p>\n<p>Chick-Fil-A, OpenAI, and the studio behind the \u201cHalo\u201d video games also made small scale donations, public records show.<\/p>\n<p>In total, SPLC allegedly \u201csecretly funneled more than $3 million\u201d to leaders of various hate groups including the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, Aryan Nations, the Nationalist Socialist Party of American Nazis and the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club between 2014 and 2023, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>The SPLC, which has denied the claims and says it will fight them in court, has said it has used sources within hate groups since the 1980s, ostensibly to gather intelligence and help bring them down from the inside.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Former Apple CEO Tim Cook, who pledged $1 million to SPLC in 2017. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>White nationalists at the 2017 Unite the Right rally. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But prosecutors claim funding has gone beyond intelligence gathering and \u201cinformants\u201d used SPLC funds to pay for hate content and extremist events.<\/p>\n<p>Informing neither law enforcement nor donors of these activities was tantamount to \u201cmaterially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, promises, and omissions,\u201d according to the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Liora Rez, founder of StopAntisemitism, fears the SPLC could have an ulterior motive \u2014 boosting their coffers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unimaginable to us that a civil rights group would gin up fake bigotry in order to solicit donations from concerned Americans,\u201d Rez told the Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this is what the SPLC did, it is shameful and outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SPLC holds an 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