· Private foundation
Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Founda
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+20 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $1,355,000 |
| WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $1,000,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC | $1,000,000 |
| GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| NEW PUBLIC | $1,000,000 |
| SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC | $600,000 |
| GIVING TUESDAY | $500,000 |
| PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $500,000 |
| WOMEN FOR AFGHAN WOMEN | $500,000 |
| HOME PROJECT USA INC | $450,000 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $450,000 |
| THE SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION | $360,000 |
| TRANSFORM FINANCE | $350,000 |
| TOO YOUNG TO WED | $300,000 |
| JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN | $300,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $685k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC5× · 2018–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +206%- GTGIVING TUESDAY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue ×12 · 67% of their budget
- CLCAMBIO LABS CO2× · 2018–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +122%
Funded once
- YOYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +115%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -4%
- NENAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INCone grant, 2020 · $600k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New America Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Karama. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
139 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. 139 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP ↗
- Who funds GIVING TUESDAY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBIO LABS CO ↗
- Who funds FWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NEW PUBLIC INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds Women for Afghan Women Inc ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds HOME PROJECT USA INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORM FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Too Young to Wed Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Equality Now 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.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Mertz Gilmore 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 Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Founda 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
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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