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Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros

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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
103
Grants FY2024
97
Organizations funded FY2023
45%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$22,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$600,000
Organizations funded a year
91 to 119
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$55M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving103$3.9M42%
FY202397$4.8M45%
FY2022106$4.6M33%
FY2021119$4.5M32%
FY2020104$3.8M42%
FY201992$4.0M36%
FY2018105$3.6M52%
FY201791$3.0Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$17MArts & Culture$13MHealth$934kEducation$760kInternational$501kHousing & Shelter$111kCivil Rights$100kEnvironment$93kOther$0

Top grantees

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

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 355 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $5,853,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $2,324,870 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $539,164 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater: $262,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetInternational House: $260,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetForeign Policy Association Inc: $240,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $152,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Austrian Foundation Inc: $147,570 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHuman Rights First: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCreative Capital Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetScreenwriters Colony Inc Dba Almanack Screenwriters: $95,000 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetVassar College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Animal Medical Center: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRomulus T Weatherman Memorial Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Videogame Critics Circle Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican London Symphony Orchestra Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetGramatan Village Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBarnard College: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTryall Fund Jamaica: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudent Advocacy Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMastervoices Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVoices of Ascension Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPositive Exposure Productions Inc: $250 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 27.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros?

Find your warmest path to Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros 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.

About Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros

How much does Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros give?
Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros reported 103 grants totaling $3,886,635 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 91 and 119 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Arts & Culture (39%), Health (3%).
Who are Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc ($5.9M), Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ($2.3M), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($539k).
Does Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros 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 Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros based?
Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation Daisy Soros is based in NY.

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 383 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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