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Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$935k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
78%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$863,909
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$27M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 78% of the organizations Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$910k33%
FY20239$135k78%
FY20221$5k100%
FY20212$11k100%
FY20201$45kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$960kEducation$222kPhilanthropy$100kHousing & Shelter$50kReligion$35kEmployment$20kArts & Culture$10kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($970k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEnd of Life Choices New York Inc: $75,850 over 3y, 18% of budgetThe Hastings Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInteractive Educational Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Nowak Society: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetRefugee and Immigrant Support Services of Emmaus Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Gleanings Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetDream Big Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAcademy of Aid-In-Dying Medicine: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation

How much does Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation give?
Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $935,069 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (67%), Education (16%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: End of Life Choices New York Inc ($76k), The Hastings Center Inc ($10k), Interactive Educational Theatre Inc ($10k).
Does Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Faith Sommerfield 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 Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation based?
Faith Sommerfield Family Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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