Two nonprofits associated with the “Belonging Fund,” announced by Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell in response to a federal immigration enforcement operation in May, received grants from the Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS), a private foundation primarily funded by billionaire investor George Soros.

Grants from FPOS to both the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT), which O’Connell announced would operate the fund, and the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), which seeded the “Belonging Fund,” are visible in the grant database made public by the Open Society Foundations (OSF), another entity founded and primarily funded by Soros.

According to the database, in CFMT was awarded a two-year grant for $150,000 by FPOS so that it might “develop an

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