Massachusetts · Private foundation
Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn 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.
- $370k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 71
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 | 54 | $362k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 60 | $376k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $420k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $408k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $423k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $476k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $523k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shakespeare & Company Inc | $201,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Beginning With Children Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Berkshire Grown Inc | $98,400 | 7 | 3% |
| Wnet | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc | $76,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc | $75,890 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($540k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 118 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Berkshire United Way Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Velmans Foundation Inc · Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Shoval Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation with peer funders
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About Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation
- How much does Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation give?
- Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $369,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 71 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Environment (19%), Health (15%).
- Who are Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Shakespeare & Company Inc ($201k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($125k), Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation ($125k).
- Does Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn 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 Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, Lee Bank Foundation Inc, The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation based?
- Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation is based in MA.
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