New York · Private foundation
Bernice Sokol 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.
- $17k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,427
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 31
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $74k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Bernice Sokol Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 23 | $17k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $18k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $17k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $14k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $16k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $12k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association | $10,005 | 7 | 0% |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hias Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $3,100 | 7 | 0% |
| The Common Good Forum Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Pace University | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Food Action in New Jersey | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Gofundmeorg | $700 | 3 | 0% |
| Climate Ride Inc | $545 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $498 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernice Sokol Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Bernice Sokol Foundation
- How much does Bernice Sokol Foundation give?
- Bernice Sokol Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $17,277 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Bernice Sokol Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Community Improvement (23%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are Bernice Sokol Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association ($10k), Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc ($6k), Hias Inc ($6k).
- Does Bernice Sokol Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernice Sokol 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 Bernice Sokol Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Bernice Sokol Foundation based?
- Bernice Sokol Foundation is based in NY.
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