Left-leaning philanthropic networks tied to billionaire George Soros have steered roughly $20 million to nonprofits backing protests against the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard and its move to assume federal control of Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, according to financial documents reviewed by the New York Post. The recipients include Community Change and Community Change Action, which sponsor the Free D.C. coalition that rallied in the capital this week. Open Society Foundations, Soros’s flagship charity, gave the two groups $4 million last year and $12.6 million between 2020 and 2023, the report said. Additional funding came from Arabella Advisors-managed funds (about $5.5 million over the same period) and the Tides Foundation (about $1.9 million). Critics of the funding, including watchdog group Americans for Public Trust, argue the money amounts to undisclosed ‘dark-money’ support for demonstrations they say undermine public-safety initiatives. Organizers counter that federal intervention erodes local autonomy in the District. The Trump administration has defended the National Guard deployment as necessary to curb a rise in violent crime.