To Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.), the billionaires are to blame for driving the culture of corruption in American politics, and he has appointed himself as the man to put a stop to it. He could start by taking a look at his own campaign, which has accepted nearly $400,000 in campaign contributions from billionaires so far this election cycle.
Ossoff, a liberal who is widely considered the most endangered Democratic incumbent senator heading into November, has garnered presidential buzz—and a national profile—with his fierce denunciations of billionaires, the Trump family, and "the Epstein class." But his self-styled "grassroots campaign" for a second full term has accepted contributions from 39 billionaires since the start of 2025, according to Forbes and Federal Election Commission records.
Ossoff's roster of prominent billionaire benefactors, none of whom appears to be from Georgia, includes progressive megadonor George Soros and his son, Alex Soros, as well as Jeffrey Epstein associate and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, hotel heir and Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker (D.) and his sister, Harvard Corporation senior fellow and former Obama secretary of commerce Penny Pritzker, and Microsoft divorcée Melinda French Gates, contributions that, according to Ossoff's own logic, could make him beholden to their interests ahead of his own constituents.
"We have to be about change and reform, and money in politics is, like, the root of all of this," Ossoff said on Pod Save America in September. "We have to focus on that. … The vast sums of corporate and billionaire money in our political system, with or without Trump, are why ordinary people are so ill-served by elected officials and by Congress."
Ossoff's reliance on billionaires to fund his campaign could open him up to charges of hypocrisy as he has made anti-corruption measures the signature theme of his reelection bid. As Ossoff tells it, American politics is a "coin-operated" system, with money coming in from billionaires and politicians delivering them favors in return. The Georgia Democrat says the Trump administration is a "government of, by, and for the ultra-rich" and has attacked his Republican opponent, Rep. Mike Collins (R., Ga.), as being a lackey of the ultra-wealthy willing to defund rural hospitals in order to "take care of billionaires and himself."
Going by his own logic, Ossoff owes political favors to an ever-growing roster of billionaire donors. Since 2017, when he first ran for Congress, Ossoff's political campaigns have accepted contributions from at least 70 billionaire donors, Fox News reported.
Alongside billionaires, Ossoff also points to corporations as vectors of corruption in modern American politics and says his campaign won't accept contributions from corporate PACs or federal lobbyists. Ossoff can't say the same about his billionaire donors, whose campaign contributions he hasn't returned.
Ossoff and fellow Georgia Democratic senator Raphael Warnock made history together in 2020, when they won their respective elections in what was once considered a deep-red state. Now, Ossoff's race is considered a must-win for the Republican Party if the party wishes to regain control of the upper chamber. Ossoff has raised more than $60 million for his reelection campaign, and recent polls show him with a narrow lead over Collins.
The Ossoff campaign did not return a request for comment.
A comprehensive list of the donors follows below.
| Ossoff Billionaire Donor Names | Total $ | State |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Norwitt | $10,500.00 | CT |
| Don Levin | $10,500.00 | IL |
| J.B. Pritzker | $10,500.00 | IL |
| James Chambers | $10,500.00 | NY |
| John Morgan | $10,500.00 | FL |
| John Morgridge | $10,300.00 | CA |
| Jennifer Pritzker | $9,900.00 | IL |
| Katharine Rayner | $9,500.00 | NY |
| Pat Stryker | $9,050.00 | CO |
| Amos Hostetter Jr | $7,000.00 | MA |
| Amy Goldman Fowler | $7,000.00 | NY |
| Brian Schimpf | $7,000.00 | VA |
| Chris Larsen | $7,000.00 | CA |
| Christopher Stolte | $7,000.00 | WA |
| Christy Walton | $7,000.00 | AR |
| Dirk Ziff | $7,000.00 | NY |
| George Soros | $7,000.00 | NY |
| Henry Laufer | $7,000.00 | FL |
| John Doerr | $7,000.00 | CA |
| John Henry | $7,000.00 | NY |
| Jonathan Tisch | $7,000.00 | NY |
| Lynda Resnick | $7,000.00 | CA |
| Melinda French Gates | $7,000.00 | WA |
| Penny Pritzker | $7,000.00 | IL |
| Reid Hoffman | $7,000.00 | WA |
| Seth Klarman | $7,000.00 | MA |
| Stephen Mandel Jr | $7,000.00 | CT |
| S Donald Sussman | $6,950.00 | FL |
| Michael Novogratz | $6,176.47 | NY |
| Brian Armstrong | $6,000.00 | CA |
| Laurie Tisch | $5,000.00 | NY |
| Robert Clark | $5,000.00 | MO |
| John Pritzker | $3,500.00 | CA |
| Joshua Bekenstein | $3,500.00 | MA |
| Jon Stryker | $2,600.00 | NY |
| John Arnold | $400.00 | TX |
| Robert Fisher | $80.00 | CA |
| Francis Najafi | $10,500.00 | AZ |
