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Oscar and Mona Sokol Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$259kReligion$258kPhilanthropy$230kHealth$30kFood & Nutrition$26kHuman Services$25kHousing & Shelter$22kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION$22,500
ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY$15,000
CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC$6,700
KAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM$6,700
Individual grant recipient$6,700
BRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE$6,700
EMANU EL SYNAGOGUE$6,700
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$6,250
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$6,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$4,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARL$3,500
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC$3,000
COLEL CHABAD$1,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$1,500
ONEEIGHTY PLACE$1,250
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 6% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%KAHAOL KADOSH BETH SYNAGOGUE: $8k → 12%KAHAOL KADOSH BETH SYNAGOGUE: $8k → 12%KAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 12%UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH: $7k → 17%KAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM: $7k → 12%KAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM: $7k → 12%KAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM: $7k → 12%KAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM: $7k → 12%CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION: $35k → 12%CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION: $29k → 12%CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION: $28k → 12%CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION: $25k → 12%ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACEDEMY: $25k → 12%ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACEDEMY: $25k → 12%CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION: $23k → 12%CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION: $23k → 12%CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION: $23k → 12%CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION: $23k → 12%CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION: $23k → 12%ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACEDEMY: $21k → 12%ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACEDEMY: $20k → 12%ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACEDEMY: $18k → 12%ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY: $15k → 12%ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY: $15k → 12%ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY: $15k → 12%ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY: $15k → 12%EMANU EL SYNAGOGUE: $8k → 12%EMANU EL SYNAGOGUE: $8k → 12%EMANU EL SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 12%EMANU EL SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 12%EMANU EL SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 12%EMANU EL SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 12%EMANU EL SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 12%CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC: $8k → 12%CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC: $8k → 12%CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC: $7k → 12%CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC: $7k → 12%CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC: $7k → 12%CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC: $7k → 12%CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC: $7k → 12%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $9k → 12%BRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION EN: $13k → 12%BRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAEL: $8k → 12%BRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAEL: $8k → 12%BSBI SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 12%BSBI SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 12%BRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAEL: $7k → 12%BRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 12%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$690k · 27 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
5

Total granted

$690k
$30k

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalReligionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • AH
    ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $169k · revenue +178%
  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +72%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • BS
    BRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION EN
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • UO
    UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • KK
    KAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM SYNAGOGUE
    one grant, 2021 · $7k

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
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
2
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.

Philanthropy
3
Chabad of Columbia University

To educate jewish students based on chabad chassidic philosophy, advance their understanding of jewish ideas and foster their jewishness.

4
Chabad Jewish Center

The Organization operates an religious outreach center to promote and understand Judaism and the laws of Kosher.

Human Services
5
Jewish Childrens Museum

To further jewish historical education among youths

Arts & Culture
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

7
Chelsea Jewish Community Inc

The organization's mission is to provide the highest level of home health and hospice care services without regard of an individual's ability to pay.

Health
8
Richmond Jewish Foundation

The Richmond Jewish Foundation is a primary, trusted and expert resource for planned giving and endowments. We engage, educate and inspire generations of donors to create ongoing resources for charitable, religious, and educational needs.…

Philanthropy
9
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
10
Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home Inc

The organization's mission is to provide individuals throughout the greater boston area with the highest level of skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living services without regard to ability to pay. the goal is to ensure both…

Health
11
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

12
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc

Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chabad of Charleston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

11 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. 11 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EMANU EL SYNAGOGUE — $62,000 · OtherEMANU EL SYNAGOGUEIndividual grant recipient — $62,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA — $53,750 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINACOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON — $37,195 · OtherCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTONBRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAEL — $35,200 · OtherBRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAELKAHAOL KADOSH BETH SYNAGOGUE — $28,500 · OtherKAHAOL KADOSH BETH SYNAGOGUEKAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM — $26,800 · OtherKAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIMLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $26,000 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — $14,900 · Other+16 more — $94,405 · Other+16 moreCharleston Jewish Federation Inc — $230,200 · PhilanthropyCharleston Jewish Federatio…ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY — $168,500 · EducationADDLESTONE HEBREW ACA…COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION — $16,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON…CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC — $62,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $18,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $7,500 · InternationalOne-Eighty Place — $10,750 · Housing & ShelterB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $1,500 · Health
Other$440,750Philanthropy$230,200Education$184,500Religion$62,000International$25,500Housing & Shelter$10,750Youth Development$2,000Health$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCharleston Jewish Federation Inc — $230,200 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY — $168,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC — $62,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $26,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOne-Eighty Place — $10,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJCC HOUSING CORPORATION — $8,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Charleston Jewish Federation Inc
  • Who funds ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY
  • Who funds CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds One-Eighty Place
  • Who funds JCC HOUSING CORPORATION
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D

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.

Jewish Endowment Foundation of South CarolinaSC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina · The Sherman Family Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Oscar and Mona Sokol Foundation 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Oscar and Mona Sokol Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Oscar and Mona Sokol Foundation 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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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