NEW YORK (AP) — Open Society Foundations, the family philanthropy of hedge fund billionaire George Soros , has consistently been one of the largest funders of human rights organizations around the world. But what that means has changed in recent years, with a new focus on addressing inequality.

“It’s about paying attention to how inequality is a deep, deep corrosive instrument to democracy,” Leonard Benardo, senior vice president at OSF, told The Associated Press at the foundations' offices in New York.

The transformation follows four years of internal upheaval , more than a year of new program selection and a generational leadership change . In some ways, the new emphasis reflects the foundations' commitment to rethinking and reimagining its work, based on Soros' own view that i

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