US Treasury Moves to Strip Tax Status From Soros, SPLC and CAIR

IFA Staff : Oct 5, 2026
Intercessors for America

Tax-exempt status is a privilege the public grants, and when a charity pays nothing, everyone else picks up the difference. ... That arrangement has always come with conditions: a 501(c)(3) must operate for charitable or educational purposes, stay out of partisan politics, and obey the law. Open Society is the largest of the three. Now chaired by Alexander Soros, George Soros' son, the foundation distributes billions of dollars to activist groups worldwide. The Post reported that its beneficiaries include Black Lives Matter, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and United We Dream Action, which works to block the deportation of illegal immigrants. The Soros network has also funded the election of soft-on-crime district attorneys in cities across the country, and families in those cities have lived with the consequences.

[IFAPray.org] Lord, we pray for Treasury Secretary Bessent and the IRS officials working on this investigation, that they would expose all corruption among these companies and organizations and bring accountability. Amen. (Screengrab image: via YouTube-WEF)

According to a recent Facebook post from Ken Blackwell, the Treasury Department is building a case to revoke the tax-exempt status of three of the most influential activist organizations on the left: George Soros' Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the IRS are drafting plans that could strip the 501(c)(3) designation from all three groups, a move that would expose them to back taxes, civil penalties, and the loss of donor tax deductions that have fueled their work for decades.

Three people familiar with the effort told the New York Post that Treasury officials are working the case aggressively, with one source describing them as "like a dog with a bone." The same source said many of these organizations and their donors could be "on borrowed time." Bessent signaled the move nearly a year ago during an appearance on the Charlie Kirk Show, saying Treasury had begun building a list of nonprofits for review. In July, he spelled out the criteria his team was applying: "We are examining where tax exempt status has been exploited, where charitable entities have become financial conduits for foreign influence activity and how those entrusted with stewardship of these organizations have instead enabled violence." He added that the work was already well underway.

The legal foundation comes from President Trump's memorandum on Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence, which directs the IRS to ensure that no tax-exempt group is funding political violence. Treasury is now applying that order to groups it believes have crossed the line from advocacy into activity that disqualifies them from the public subsidy that tax-exempt status represents. The dollars involved are substantial. The Post reviewed the 2024 IRS filings for all three organizations and calculated what they would have owed at the 21% corporate tax rate. Open Society alone would have owed roughly $163.6 million for that single year. The SPLC would have owed about $354,000. Seventeen CAIR chapters combined would have owed approximately $860,000. Together, that totals roughly $165 million in taxes these groups did not pay in a single year.

Every American taxpayer subsidizes that arrangement. Tax-exempt status is a privilege the public grants, and when a charity pays nothing, everyone else picks up the difference. Donors to these groups also deduct their contributions, shifting even more of the burden onto working families. That arrangement has always come with conditions: a 501(c)(3) must operate for charitable or educational purposes, stay out of partisan politics, and obey the law. Open Society is the largest of the three. Now chaired by Alexander Soros, George Soros' son, the foundation distributes billions of dollars to activist groups worldwide. The Post reported that its beneficiaries include Black Lives Matter, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and United We Dream Action, which works to block the deportation of illegal immigrants. The Soros network has also funded the election of soft-on-crime district attorneys in cities across the country, and families in those cities have lived with the consequences.

The SPLC case may move the fastest. A federal grand jury indicted the organization earlier this year, and according to testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, the indictment alleges the SPLC secretly moved about $4.1 million in tax-exempt donor money into fictitious accounts and funded some of the very hate groups it told donors it was fighting. The SPLC denies the charges. For years, the group placed mainstream conservative and Christian organizations on its "hate map" alongside the Ku Klux Klan, and tech platforms used those labels to cut groups off from their audiences. The Biden administration reportedly relied on SPLC guidance in its own work. In June, Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina led a group of House Republicans in asking Bessent to revoke the SPLC's tax-exempt status. (Image: Generated by Grok X AI)

CAIR has faced federal scrutiny for nearly two decades. In 2007, federal prosecutors named the group an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case, the largest terrorism financing prosecution in American history, which ended in convictions for funneling millions of dollars to Hamas. Last December, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked Bessent to suspend CAIR's tax-exempt status, and in January, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith referred CAIR's California chapter to the IRS for investigation. CAIR denies any ties to terrorism and has sued Texas over the governor's actions. There is one final detail worth noting: before he joined the Trump Cabinet, Scott Bessent served as chief investment officer of Soros Fund Management. He spent years inside the operation that funds this network. Few people in Washington understand better how that money moves, where it goes, and what it pays for.

Let's pray for Treasury Secretary Bessent and the IRS officials working on this investigation, that they would pursue the facts without fear or favor and hold every organization accountable to the same standard regardless of its political alignment. Let's pray for lawmakers in Congress who have the authority to reform the tax code, that they would close loopholes that allow activist groups to exploit charitable status for political ends. Let's pray for families in cities where Soros-funded district attorneys have refused to prosecute violent crime, that they would see justice restored and that their communities would be made whole. And let's pray for a tax system that treats every American equally, remembering Proverbs 29:4: a king who gives justice makes the land stable, but one who takes bribes tears it down. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here