Inside the ‘radical’ multi-million dollar push to defund the police and abolish ICE

A charitable organization known as Coefficiency Giving, which is mainly funded by liberal billionaire Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Carrie Tonna, has been criticized for quietly funding a list of “radical projects” and donating millions to… Defending police groupsand anti-pandemic initiatives and other progressive causes over several years.

Before changing its name from Open Philanthropy to Coefficiency Giving and divesting from “criminal justice reform” initiatives to a splinter group called “Just Impact,” Open Philanthropy awarded hundreds of grants primarily to private individuals. Extremist leftist groups In this category for six years.

Among the groups Open Philanthropy donated to were JustLeadershipUSA, a group that compares the criminal justice system to slavery, Color of Change, a force for defunding the police, People’s Action, which claimed law enforcement was waging a “war against black people,” and Fair and Just Prosecution, an advocate for eliminating cash bail.

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Giving Labs is being criticized for funding a list of “radical projects” by donating millions to defund police groups, anti-custodial initiatives and other progressive causes over several years. (Getty)

The group also made donations to the Free Immigration Project, which has advocated for the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the National Bail Fund Network, a coalition of groups that helped rescue participants in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. After Minnesota activist Rene Judd was killed by an ICE agent earlier this year, the Free Immigration Project posted on its Instagram that “ICE and Border Patrol cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.”

Commenting on the donations, Curtis Shupe, director of research and policy at the Center for America’s Policing, criticized Open Philanthropy, saying the group “quietly funds all kinds of extremist projects, including those that eliminate bail requests for criminals and that seek to defund the police.”

“These goals are the opposite of social welfare,” Shupe said. “They make the community less safe and harm the communities they claim to be concerned about.”

The group to which Open Philanthropy gave the largest amount of money was the Alliance for Safety and Justice, a progressive organization that advocates for replacing incarceration with community-led safety strategies and trauma recovery services. The group received a total of $11,750,000.00 from Open Philanthropy through just three donations between 2016 and 2018.

Open Philanthropy awarded $4,440,000.00 to JustLeadershipUSA, whose President, Diana Hoskins, has previously emphasized the need to defund the police, describing it as “divestment from law and order to investment in protection in thriving communities.”

A Giving Factors spokesperson explained that the group’s donations “supported a variety of projects designed to improve public safety, reduce government spending, and keep families together.” The group stopped these types of donations in 2021, the spokesperson said.

The criminal legal system is “part of a much larger system of oppression that disproportionately afflicts black, brown, and poor communities,” the group’s website states. Furthermore, the JustLeadershipUSA website states that the incarceration system “is actually a dumping ground for the country’s other failed systems” and “contains powerful remnants of slavery.”

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March to defund the police in Chicago, July 24, 2020. (E. Jason Wampsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The website states that the group is committed to “disrupting” the prison system, which it says, “like slavery, is based on the subjugation of those under its control.”

Open Philanthropy awarded $3,259,100 to Color of Change and its affiliated entities. In 2021, the director of the Color of Change campaign called for “No More Police, No More Mass Incarceration,” and pressured New York City to cut $1 billion from policing. The group has called for “defunding the police,” and has also supported transferring police funds in Minneapolis. In 2021, Color of Change also issued a statement urging Facebook to “permanently ban” the president. Donald Trump from the platform and “take action against its enablers.”

Meanwhile, People’s Action received $1,927,640 from Open Philanthropy. In 2020, People’s Action announced its support for the Movement for Black Lives, a self-proclaimed “anti-capitalist” group. In its statement announcing the endorsement, the People’s Action Organization called for “an end to the war against black people” and demanded that schools, colleges, universities and “all public institutions sever their ties with the police.”

“Police are not keeping us safe, and additional reforms cannot change the prevailing culture of police violence against Black people,” the group wrote.

In January 2026, People’s Action sent a press release urging “immediate action to defund ICE and remove ICE and Border Patrol from Minnesota, Maine, and communities across the country.”

Open Philanthropy donated $3 million to Fair And Just Prosecution, a criminal justice reform group that in 2018 co-developed a training model geared toward newly elected prosecutors’ offices who were said to be “committed to a justice system that moves away from past prison-driven practices and toward principles of fairness, equity, and compassion.”

The group praised state legislation that ended cash bail. In 2021, the group paid tribute to Illinois bill ends cash bail As a “necessary and long overdue” change.

A spokesperson for Fair and Impartial Prosecution told Fox News Digital that the group “supports a peer-led community of local elected prosecutors working toward a justice system that prioritizes public safety based on justice, fairness, fiscal responsibility and humanity.”

Open Philanthropy also funded the National Bail Fund Network with a $404,800 grant. The network continued to raise millions after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. The History of philanthropy It was reported in 2023 that some defendants who received bail money from the group continued to commit violent crimes.

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Open Philanthropy donated $24,000 to the Free Immigration Project, a group whose executive director, David Bennion, has previously said that “not only should ICE be abolished, but its core function of free immigration must be abolished.” – Imprisonment and deportation of non-citizens “It must be eliminated as well.”

Bennion has argued that deportation is “not only cruel and economically counterproductive,” but he also claimed that it is “contrary to basic justice and has no place in a legal system built on coherent moral principles.”

Although the $130 million donated by Open Philanthropy for criminal justice reform was given primarily to progressive groups, the amount includes many donations to conservative groups as well, including the American Conservative Union, which received a total of $612,000.00.

In 2021, Open Philanthropy spun off its criminal justice reform platform into a splinter group called Just Impact. Open Philanthropy has awarded Just Impact $50 million in seed funding spread over three and a half years.

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A spokesperson for Coefficiency Giving told Fox News Digital that “through late 2021, Open Philanthropy supported a variety of projects designed to improve public safety, reduce government spending and keep families together, including funding the American Conservative Union, host of CPAC, to administer the Center for Criminal Justice Reform, headed by Pat Nolan.”

“Among the reforms enacted while Open Philanthropy was funding this work was the First Step Act of 2018, which was first introduced by then-Congressman and current Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins, passed with bipartisan support, and signed into law by President Trump,” the spokesperson said.