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Sokol Family Foundation Kelly Sokol
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION | $1,000,000 |
| FOR KIDS | $325,000 |
| AMERICAN HIMALAYAN FOUNDATION | $310,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $120,000 |
| PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $35,000 |
| TIDEWATER | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA SPORTS HALL OF FAME | $10,000 |
| BIGFORK FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| BIGFORK CULTURAL CENTER | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +36%
- VMVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART3× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +115%
- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters2× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TNTHE NORFOLK ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -2%
- SUSALVAGE USAone grant, 2021 · $5k
K9S FOR WARRIORS INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.
The mission of the virginia sports hall of fame foundation is to serve as a non-profit resource which celebrates athletic excellence in the commonwealth of virginia, while inspiring the public through programming and engaging entertainment.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Sfc virginia is a foster-based animal rescue group in fredericksburg, va. founded in june 2019 with a focus on saving dogs and cats from rural and otherwise underserved shelters in the state, we strive to provide quality medical care…
Collaborating with our members and stakeholders, vhha works to ensure the sustainability of virginia's health care system and improve the health of all virginians.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…
Provide shelter, care, and treatment to homeless animals in the city of portsmouth community through permanent adoptions, spay/neuter programs, and community education.
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.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
To provide brands and services that promote applied research and technological innovations that, in turn, contribute positively to the economic strength of the hampton roads region and the commonwealth of virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forkids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds The American Himalayan Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BIGFORK FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESOURCES OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sokol Family Foundation Kelly Sokol 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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