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Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Founda at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NEW PUBLIC$1,000,000
GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC$600,000
GIVING TUESDAY$500,000
WOMEN FOR AFGHAN WOMEN$500,000
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT$500,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$450,000
HOME PROJECT USA INC$450,000
THE SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION$360,000
TRANSFORM FINANCE$350,000
WOMEN'S EARTH ALLIANCE$300,000
TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER$300,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
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RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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%
+8%

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
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.

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

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

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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.

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New America Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
139/139
Grantees still filing
82/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNEW PUBLIC INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.3% 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 budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $300,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $300,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN: $300,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $300,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetToo Young to Wed Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $260,100 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $251,450 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund: $250,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $250,000 over 2y, 3.8% 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 budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 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 budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

The Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…ImpactassetsincJewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Rockefeller Found…The William & Flora H…The Hyde and Watson F…May and Samuel Rudin …Mertz Gilmore Foundat…
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Founda. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 174 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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