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The Open Society Foundations reported annual expenditures of $827 million in 2014.[17] Its $873 million budget in 2013, ranked as the second largest private philanthropy budget in the United States, after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation budget of $3.9 billion.[18]

According to the foundations' website, 1993-2014 expenditures included:[17]

$2.9 billion to defend human rights, especially the rights of women; ethnic, racial, and religious minorities; drug users; sex workers; and LGBTQ communities;
$2.1 billion for education;
$1.6 billion on developing democracy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union;
$1.5 billion in the United States to promote reform in criminal justice, drug policy, palliative care, education, immigration, equal rights, and democratic governance;
$737 million for public health issues such as HIV and AIDS, TB, palliative care, harm reduction, and patients' rights;
$214 million to advance the rights of Roma communities in Europe.

Expenditures in 2014 included:[17]

$277.3 million - Rights and Justice
$238.0 million - Governance and Accountability
$116.0 million - Administration
$91.7 million - Education and Youth
$60.0 million - Health
$43.8 million - Media and Information.

Within these totals, OSF reported granting at least $33 million to civil rights and social justice organizations in the United States.[19] This funding included groups such as the Organization for Black Struggle and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment that supported protests in the wake of the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the death of Eric Garner, the shooting of Tamir Rice and the shooting of Michael Brown.[20][21][22] According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the OSF spends much of its resources on democratic causes around the world, and has also contributed to groups such as the Tides Foundation.[23]

OSF has been a major financial supporter of U.S. immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.[24]

OSF projects have included the National Security and Human Rights Campaign and the Lindesmith Center, which conducted research on drug reform.[3]

The Library of Congress Soros Foundation Visiting Fellows Program was initiated in 1990.[25][26]