His nonprofit Open Society Foundation is said to donate around $1.5 billion a year to liberal causes, and George has financially backed progressive criminal justice reform in district attorney elections, including in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Chicago. And Alex, who told the Wall Street Journal he is even “more political” than his father, is in place to take over his father’s mantle. Soros pere had boasted that he would never cede control of his companies while he was still alive. But last June, he said Alex, an NYU grad and one of five children, had earned the right to take over the family’s holdings.
