Virginia · Private foundation
Bear-Sontz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $150k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Bear-Sontz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 48 | $150k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $122k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $110k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $110k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $104k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $153k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $149k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $98k | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $131,122 | 6 | 0% |
| Milagro Foundation Inc | $49,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Northeastern University | $48,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $39,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Turnout Activism Inc | $32,050 | 2 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $25,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Impact 100 Palm Beach County Inc | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($478k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bear-Sontz Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Bear-Sontz Family Foundation
- How much does Bear-Sontz Family Foundation give?
- Bear-Sontz Family Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bear-Sontz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Arts & Culture (20%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Bear-Sontz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($131k), Milagro Foundation Inc ($50k), Northeastern University ($48k).
- Does Bear-Sontz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bear-Sontz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bear-Sontz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Bear-Sontz Family Foundation based?
- Bear-Sontz Family Foundation is based in VA.
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