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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 FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Arts & Culture$745kEnvironment$574kHealth$463kFood & Nutrition$348kEducation$210kRecreation & Sports$124kYouth Development$108kHuman Services$108kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $123k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $247k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY$32,000
CATA$25,000
JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES INC$25,000
SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION$20,000
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM$15,000
CENTER FOR ECO TECHNOLOGY$15,000
FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM$15,000
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$12,500
BERKSHIRE GROWN$12,500
JACOB'S PILLOW$10,000
KRIPALU$10,000
THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY$10,000
WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION$10,000
BERKSHIRE BOUNTY$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 8%WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS TRAINING CONSORTIUM: $5k → 17%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%VISCARDI CENTER: $26k → 6%EAST END HOSPICE: $15k → 7%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $10k → 20%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 8%EAST END HOSPICE: $5k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 8%WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS TRAINING CONSORTIUM: $5k → 17%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $10k → 6%EAST END HOSPICE: $5k → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $5k → 7%NORTH EAST WESTCHESTER SPECIAL RECREATION: $1k → 9%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $2k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $1k → 7%VISCARDI CENTER: $1k → 6%THE JEWISH BOARD: $25k → 17%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $1k → 6%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES INC: $25k → 17%MULTICULTURAL BRIDGE: $3k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $6k → 12%THE READING TEAM: $5k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD: $25k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD: $25k → 17%NON PROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $3k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $2k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $2k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $1k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $1k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $1k → 12%BLUE RIDER STABLES: $250 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 92 repeat orgs$342k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

92 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
73

Total granted

$2.6M
$326k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+15%

Still filing today

87%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $201k · revenue +1%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $125k · revenue +37%
  • BW
    BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $29k
  • SW
    SAMUEL WAXMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
4
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
5
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
6
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
7
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
10
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beginning With Children Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#13#0#10#12#15#8#5#11#9
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/124
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,441

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 174 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/123
Grantees still filing
83/123
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATA — $125,000 · OtherCATASAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $125,000 · OtherSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATI…JBFCS — $80,000 · OtherJBFCSKRIPALU — $60,000 · OtherKRIPALUCONSTRUCT INC — $35,000 · Other+83 more — $619,915 · Other+83 moreSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC — $201,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INCWNET — $90,000 · Arts & CultureWNETNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $76,500 · Arts & CultureMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS C…NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC — $75,890 · Arts & CultureNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT…JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FEST…+20 more — $108,600 · Arts & Culture+20 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $125,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURC…CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC — $67,500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR ECOT…GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $55,000 · EnvironmentGOODPOWER EDUCA…CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentCARY INSTITUTE …QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC — $22,500 · EnvironmentCEC STUYVESANT COVE INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE — $15,000 · Environment+10 more — $70,500 · Environment+10 moreBERKSHIRE GROWN INC — $98,400 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE G…FOOD & WATER WATCH — $90,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD & WATE…THE SYLVIA CENTER — $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SYLVIA …THE PEOPLES PANTRY — $22,500 · Food & NutritionTHE PEOPLES…BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRES …THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC — $17,500 · Food & NutritionTHE CORNUCO…GREENAGERS INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionTHE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION — $11,500 · Food & Nutrition+6 more — $22,000 · Food & Nutrition+6 moreJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC — $40,300 · Human ServicesEast End Hospice Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN MASSACHUSETTS TRAINING CONSORTIUM INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesNONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC — $9,000 · Human Services+8 more — $24,250 · Human ServicesBEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 · EducationHEALTHY SCHOOLS NETWORK INC — $22,500 · EducationLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc — $19,349 · EducationHENRY VISCARDI SCHOOL — $18,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $17,500 · Education+4 more — $13,000 · EducationFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC — $70,000 · Recreation & SportsPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 · Recreation & SportsVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE — $12,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,044,915Arts & Culture$701,990Environment$425,500Food & Nutrition$321,900Human Services$233,550Education$195,349Recreation & Sports$163,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC — $201,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE GROWN INC — $98,400 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH — $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWNET — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $76,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC — $75,890 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC — $70,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC — $67,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC — $40,300 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc — $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC — $35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC — $30,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC — $29,900 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGREEN AMERICA — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOMS AGAINST FLUORIDATION DBA NATIONAL CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetPETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER — $25,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC — $22,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $22,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHY SCHOOLS NETWORK INC — $22,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PANTRY — $22,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC — $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCEC STUYVESANT COVE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CINEMA EDUCATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 83% of budgetLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc — $19,349 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHENRY VISCARDI SCHOOL — $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC — $17,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENAGERS INC — $15,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE — $12,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE GROWN INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC ↗
  • Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VISCARDI CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds East End Hospice Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONSTRUCT INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds REED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MOMS AGAINST FLUORIDATION DBA NATIONAL CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds PETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SYLVIA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY SCHOOLS NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLES PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds CEC STUYVESANT COVE INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Lee Bank Foundation I…The Feigenbaum Founda…Berkshire Bank Founda…The Buchwald Family F…Jane and Jack Fitzpat…Berkshire United Way …The Hyde and Watson F…The Velmans Foundatio…Geoffrey C Hughes Fou…Pinkerton FoundationShoval Foundation
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA62.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Berkshire Grown Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Osamequin Farm Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Center for Ecotechnology Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Wam Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Berkshire Childrens Chorus Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Pulse Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Riverview School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 174 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines