Skip to content
Plinth

· 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.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Philanthropy$14MCivil Rights$8.5MEducation$5.2MPublic Benefit$5.1MArts & Culture$4.1MInternational$3.9MHuman Services$2.9MCommunity Improvement$1.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

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
$150,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$259M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 10%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60k → 8%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $200k → 9%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 8%REACH FOR HOME: $100 → 9%LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 17%LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 17%LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $25k → 17%LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 17%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

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 48 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
77

Total granted

$26M
$7.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+7%

Still filing today

94%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther

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 INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +206%
  • GT
    GIVING TUESDAY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue ×12 · 67% of their budget
  • CL
    CAMBIO LABS CO
    2× · 2018–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • YO
    YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +115%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -4%
  • NE
    NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $600k

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
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
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

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

4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

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.

6
Manhattan University

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…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
9
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
10
Sarah Lawrence College

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…

Education
11
The George Washington University

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…

Education
12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

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.

Public Benefit

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Military Veterans SupportCommunity Arts CentersWomen & Girls Leadership De…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Dance Arts OrganizationsCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesSchool Parent OrganizationsAffordable Housing Developm…Community College Foundatio…Local History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Pregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsLgbtq+ Community SupportImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Foundations
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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%5%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/145
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,615

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

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 20172025, 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
139/139
Grantees still filing
81/139
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC — $3,236,700 · PhilanthropyGIVE LIVELY FOUNDA…THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMU…GIVING TUESDAY INC — $1,950,000 · PhilanthropyGIVING TUESDAY INC+4 more — $281,000 · PhilanthropyNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $5,000,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFEN…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $650,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR RE…PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $550,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY…THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER — $300,000 · Civil Rights+7 more — $1,372,500 · Civil Rights+7 moreNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP — $2,000,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIPFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,355,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT …NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $600,000 · OtherSUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATION — $1,030,000 · OtherSUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATIONSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION — $800,000 · OtherSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $600,000 · OtherGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $1,100,000 · OtherGENERATION CITIZEN INCYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc — $1,000,000 · OtherYMCA of Martha's Vineyard IncNEW PUBLIC INC — $1,000,000 · OtherNEW PUBLIC INC+82 more — $7,608,727 · Other+82 moreCAMBIO LABS CO — $1,383,334 · EducationCAMBIO LABS…FWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,250,000 · EducationFWDUS EDUCA…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $751,680 · EducationWESLEYAN UN…VILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $410,000 · EducationVILLAGE COM…Trustees of Hamilton College — $206,056 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $200,000 · Education+18 more — $1,093,111 · Education+18 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $4,108,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY I…THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY — $500,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MAYOR'…TRANSFORM FINANCE INC — $350,000 · Community ImprovementTRANSFORM …+2 more — $25,400 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $2,549,125 · Arts & CultureToo Young to Wed Inc — $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $251,450 · Arts & CultureKARAMA — $180,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureUSDAN CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS — $141,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $530,233 · Arts & CultureWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $1,000,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,000,000 · InternationalWomen for Afghan Women Inc — $500,000 · InternationalPANORAMA GLOBAL — $450,000 · InternationalHOME PROJECT USA INC — $450,000 · InternationalEquality Now Inc — $260,100 · InternationalTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC — $180,000 · InternationalEDUCATE GIRLS — $150,000 · International+3 more — $22,500 · International
Philanthropy$8,467,700Civil Rights$7,872,500Other$17,093,727Education$5,294,181Community Improvement$4,983,400Arts & Culture$4,101,808International$4,012,600

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 budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $5,000,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $4,108,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC — $3,236,700 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $3,000,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $2,549,125 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP — $2,000,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGIVING TUESDAY INC — $1,950,000 over 5y, 67% of budgetFWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,250,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $1,100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetSUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATION — $1,030,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEW PUBLIC INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION — $800,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $751,680 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $650,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $600,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $550,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY — $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWomen for Afghan Women Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL — $450,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOME PROJECT USA INC — $450,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetVILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $410,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTRANSFORM FINANCE INC — $350,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $327,126 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $306,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetToo Young to Wed Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS — $300,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER — $300,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN — $300,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC — $300,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetEquality Now Inc — $260,100 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $251,450 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund — $250,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAIRVOTE — $250,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $240,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetCENTERLINK INC — $230,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $206,056 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $205,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $201,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc — $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% 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.

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.

The Ford FoundationNY32.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc22% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Centerlink Inc12% of income from government
  • Literary Arts Inc10% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc3% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College1% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Founda?

Find your warmest path to Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Founda 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph