--- description: Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has pledged $10 million to combat hate crimes in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as President title: George Soros to Donate $10 Million to Combat Hate Crimes image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d7d04144d442bae/6988af9da988cae7d26ba442/gettyimages-464618805.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [philanthropy](/tag/philanthropy/) ## philanthropy Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # George Soros Is Donating $10 Million to Combat the Recent Rise in Hate Crimes by [Feliz Solomon](/author/feliz-solomon/) ## Feliz Solomon Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 23, 2016 5:45 AM CUT  George Soros at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2014 George Soros at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2014Chris Ratcliffe—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Feliz Solomon](/author/feliz-solomon/) ## Feliz Solomon Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 23, 2016 5:45 AM CUT Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has [pledged $10 million](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/us/politics/george-soros-hate-crimes.html "undefined") to combat hate crimes in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as President, the largest donation of its kind since a spike in attacks following the Nov. 8 poll. According to the New York _Times_, Soros said that the recent escalation in attacks against immigrants and minorities were caused by “dark forces that have been awakened” by the election. “We must do something to push back against what’s happening here,” Soros, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, told the _Times_ in a telephone interview. There has reportedly been an uptick in private donations to organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood since the election. Soros will gift an initial $5 million in grants of up to $150,000 to community-based and civil-society organizations through his non-profit, Open Society Foundations, the _Times_ reports. Funding will also be appropriated to groups that monitor and track hate crimes across the U.S., the _Times_ reports_._ One such group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, says it has received more than 700 reports of harassment and possible hate crimes since polling day. Soros said the gift was not intended as a statement of political opposition to Trump’s policies, but that he believed the President-elect’s disparaging rhetoric about Muslims, Mexicans, women and other groups were “directly responsible” for the recent rise of racially or otherwise socially charged episodes. Days after his election win, Trump said during an interview with CBS News’ _60 Minutes_ that he was “saddened to hear” reports that some of his supporters had attacked minorities, and called on them to “stop it.” Nonetheless, Trump has come under sustained criticism for not doing more to suppress the recent rise in tensions, as well as what appears to be his team’s tacit acceptance of support from so-called “alt-right” white-supremacist groups. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/us/politics/george-soros-hate-crimes.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4581137/george-soros-donald-trump-hate-crime-minorities-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4581137/george-soros-donald-trump-hate-crime-minorities-election/"},"headline":"George Soros Is Donating $10 Million to Combat the Recent Rise in Hate Crimes","datePublished":"2016-11-23T05:45:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:58:30.664Z","description":"Soros believes Donald Trump's rhetoric about Muslims, Mexicans, women and other groups was “directly responsible” for the uptick in attacks","url":"https://time.com/4581137/george-soros-donald-trump-hate-crime-minorities-election/","keywords":["philanthropy","Election 2016","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d7d04144d442bae/6988af9da988cae7d26ba442/gettyimages-464618805.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Feliz Solomon","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d7d04144d442bae/6988af9da988cae7d26ba442/gettyimages-464618805.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Davos World Economic Forum 2014","caption":"The Davos World Economic Forum 2014","creditText":"Chris Ratcliffe—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/philanthropy/","name":"philanthropy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4581137/george-soros-donald-trump-hate-crime-minorities-election/","name":"George Soros Is Donating $10 Million to Combat the Recent Rise in Hate Crimes"}}]}] ```