Undeniable Soros Funding Pipeline to Loud Light Kansas: The IRS 990 Proof They Cannot Deny

Loud Light claims to be a homegrown, nonpartisan Kansas group just “turning up democracy” for young people. That story falls apart the moment you open the public IRS tax filings. Loud Light (EIN 81-0798700) and its 501(c)(4) political arm have taken more than one million dollars through a direct, documented chain that starts with George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and ends in their Topeka P.O. Box. Every number below comes straight from ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the organizations’ own IRS Form 990 Schedule I filings—records anyone can pull up and verify right now.

Here is the unbreakable chain:

Alliance for Youth Organizing (EIN 46-2465621) sent Loud Light $175,585 in a single recent tax year. The grant is listed word-for-word on Alliance for Youth Organizing’s own 990 filing: “LOUD LIGHT INC, PO BOX 4045, TOPEKA, KS 66604, EIN 81-0798700, 501(c)(3), 175,585.” That exact line appears in the public record on ProPublica.

From 2020 through 2024, the same Alliance for Youth Organizing sent Loud Light a total of $755,085. Loud Light’s own filings and CauseIQ summaries confirm the running total. Their 501(c)(4) arm, Loud Light Civic Action, pulled in an additional $267,490 from the related Alliance for Youth Action.

Loud Light is an official state affiliate of the Alliance for Youth Action network. They are listed on the national group’s own website and materials as one of their partner organizations. This is not a loose connection—it is a formal relationship.

Now the top of the pipeline: The Alliance for Youth Organizing and Alliance for Youth Action have received millions directly from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and Soros-linked entities. Kansas researcher Earl F. Glynn (WatchDogLab Substack) tracked the upstream grants using the same public 990s and Open Society’s own grant database. Soros money flows Open Society Foundations → Alliance groups → Loud Light. Additional layers include the Tides Foundation (which sent Loud Light $115,000 in 2024 alone plus $302,500 cumulatively) and Arabella Advisors’ dark-money funds (Windward Fund, New Venture Fund, etc.), which poured at least $1.8 million into Kansas groups in 2024—including Loud Light’s share for voter work. Arabella entities themselves received tens of millions from Soros nonprofits in the years immediately before.

This is not speculation. These are the exact dollar amounts, EINs, and grant descriptions sitting in the IRS database today.

What does Loud Light do with the Soros-tied cash? They use it to:

• File lawsuits against Kansas election laws (co-plaintiff with Kansas Appleseed in the 2025 SB 4 mail-ballot deadline case)
• Attack Rep. Pat Proctor and other Republicans for pushing voter integrity bills
• Produce weekly legislative hit pieces that call conservative leaders “conspiracy peddlers”
• Run youth voter registration and turnout operations that target low-turnout districts while opposing every reform that makes elections more secure

The same organization that takes Soros money through these national pass-throughs then lectures Kansans about “foreign billionaires” having no place in our politics. The hypocrisy is on paper for anyone to see.

There is no direct wire from George Soros’ personal checking account to Loud Light’s account—that would be illegal for a 501(c)(3). Instead, Soros built the exact layered system we see here: Open Society Foundations funds the national alliances, the alliances fund the state groups, and the state groups do the political work. Every link in that chain is documented in public tax returns.

Loud Light cannot deny this. The grants are listed by name, address, and EIN in black and white on ProPublica. Earl F. Glynn’s WatchDogLab reports, the Kansas Informer coverage, and the organizations’ own filings all line up on the same numbers. If they want to prove it is false, they can release every grant they have received since 2018 with the original donor names and amounts. They will not do that—because the trail leads straight back to Soros.

This is the proof-positive connection. Soros money is in Loud Light’s bank account, funding their lawsuits, their attacks on Republican legislators, and their efforts to loosen Kansas election rules. The records do not lie. Real Kansans deserve to know exactly who is paying the bills when these groups show up at the Capitol or the courthouse. The paper trail is wide open.