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Jim and Leah Sohr 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.

$767k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$444,300
Organizations funded a year
5 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$4.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureOther
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 arriving11$767k36%
FY20238$323k50%
FY202212$396k42%
FY20216$179k50%
FY202021$340k81%
FY201912$396k50%
FY201811$419k82%
FY20175$235kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$822kEducation$656kRecreation & Sports$515kAnimals$354kArts & Culture$102kHealth$93kPhilanthropy$62kHuman Services$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
RI
CA
CO
TN
SC
DC
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Micah$807,0757n/a
Friends of the Warner Parks Inc$500,00045%
Nashville Zoo Inc$334,00021%
The Ensworth School$200,00020%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$180,00020%
Vanderbilt University$158,00030%
Nashville Ballet$92,50041%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$58,50020%
Barnard College$50,00010%
Lipscomb University$50,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($366k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of the Warner Parks Inc: $500,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetNashville Zoo Inc: $334,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Ensworth School: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $158,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Ballet: $92,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $58,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBarnard College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLipscomb University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bubba Stevenson Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetThe Nashville Entrepreneur Center: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChi Boule Foundation: $16,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentennial Park Conservancy: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetProject Return Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Friends Senior Dogs Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGentrys Education Center at the Store Front Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject R12: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Crossroads Campus: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWings for Kids: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Store Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThistle Farms Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRenewal House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetO'More College of Design: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTj Martell Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTennessee Innocence Project: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHeather Abbott Foundation: $523 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $515 over 1y, 0.0% 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 35.

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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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN32.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Tennessee Titans Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Vanderbilt University · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · The Blum Family 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 Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation

How much does Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation give?
Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $766,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Education (21%), Recreation & Sports (17%).
Who are Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Congregation Micah ($807k), Friends of the Warner Parks Inc ($500k), Nashville Zoo Inc ($334k).
Does Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jim and Leah Sohr 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 Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Frist Foundation, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
Where is Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation based?
Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 55 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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