Liberal billionaire George Soros gave more than $246 million to groups that helped organize Wednesday's "Day Without a Woman" protest, according to a report.
The conservative Media Research Center released a report on Tuesday that claimed Soros, whose net worth is about $25 billion and who donates to numerous liberal causes, gave millions of dollars to organizers behind the protests between 2000 and 2014.
Schools in at least four states cancelled classes on Wednesday so that teachers and staff members could participate in "Day Without a Woman" demonstrations in honor of "International Women's Day," Fox News reported. The strike called for women across the country to not engage in any work to show their economic and social power and spotlight gender inequality.
Critics of the strike said it was meant to protest President Donald Trump. Organizers of the strike were the same groups and individuals that created the Women's March on Washington in January, which protested Trump's inauguration.
Of the Women's March's 544 partners, 100 groups received money from Soros between 2000 and 2014 that totaled $246,637,217, according to the Media Research Center. Planned Parenthood and the Center for American Progress were among the groups that received funding.
The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch received the most funding from Soros–$37 million and $32 million, respectively, the report stated. A "premier partner" of the Women's March, Planned Parenthood, raked in $21 million.
"Those donations represent just a fragment of Soros' massive global influence," the Media Research Center said in its report. "His Open Society Foundations have given away more than $13 billion to push his globalist, anti-American views."