Soros does his "philanthropy" because it gives him reach and control more typical of a politician. He can make things change on the ground. He prefers anonymity, no surprise. He's banal, like Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem." That statement is NOT (quite) a violation of Godwin's Law!

He's leveraging the power he has to have as much influence as possible before he's dead. Regardless of what that is, the premise is basically the same thing politicians seek to do with money as the build their own nests first. He's just even less accountable.

There's no way we could ever read his mind to determine the degree of malice involved. That's not a thing we can do, though many pretentiously pretend it's so. It doesn't matter in the end. He's accountable to no one.