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Sofia Konikoff Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
70%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,903
Organizations funded a year
10 to 15
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 70% of the organizations Sofia Konikoff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman 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 arriving3$13k33%
FY202310$41k70%
FY202215$159k53%
FY202110$60kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$113kEducation$107kInternational$55kReligion$26kHealth$9kYouth Development$3kArts & Culture$2kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$45,00020%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$10,00010%
B'Nai Israel Congregation$5,0001n/a
The Jerusalem Fellowships Inc$4,00011%
Congregation Beth El$3,0002n/a
Hospice House of Hampton Roads Inc$2,50010%
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters$2,50010%
The Degood Foundation$2,50013%
American Friends of Alyn Hospitalinc$2,25020%
Hampton Roads Writers$2,00022%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($190k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sofia Konikoff Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jerusalem Fellowships Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHospice House of Hampton Roads Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Degood Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Alyn Hospitalinc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHampton Roads Writers: $2,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWe Can Ride Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Fire Chiefs Association Inc Co James H Johnson: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family Service of Tidewater Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Ataxia Foundation Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Southeastern Virginia: $307 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 13.

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.

Tidewater Jewish Foundation IncVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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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About Sofia Konikoff Foundation

How much does Sofia Konikoff Foundation give?
Sofia Konikoff Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $13,210 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Sofia Konikoff Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Education (34%), International (17%).
Who are Sofia Konikoff Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($45k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($10k), B'Nai Israel Congregation ($5k).
Does Sofia Konikoff Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sofia Konikoff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sofia Konikoff Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc, Hampton Roads Community Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Sofia Konikoff Foundation based?
Sofia Konikoff Foundation is based in VA.

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 27 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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