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Sokol Foundation Inc

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.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$36kAnimals$6kEnvironment$2kPhilanthropy$2kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kHealth$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$377
Median grant
6
States reached
$136k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY$2,084
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$1,506
OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION$578
GATHER M$377
ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION$377
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAKEE$377
TENACRE COUNTY DAY SCHOOL$377
ROCKY MT ELK FOUNDATION$350
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $377) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Haven: $377 → 5%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.
$51k · 19 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$51k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+22%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +247%
  • THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +40%
  • DANA HALL SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2023 · $3k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $400 · revenue +99%
  • FS
    Family Sanctuary
    one grant, 2022 · $400
  • HV
    HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $377 · revenue +22%

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
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
7
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
8
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

11
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
12
Explorer West an Independent Middle School

We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Valley Fire Department. 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

16 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. 16 of the 27 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)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Virginia — $13,599 · OtherUniversity of VirginiaSt Sebastian School — $2,838 · OtherSt Sebastian SchoolTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $1,775 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCRocky Mountain Elk Foundation — $1,470 · OtherRocky Mountain Elk FoundationMOUNTAIN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT — $1,320 · OtherAlzheimer Association — $1,154 · OtherSequoia Natural History Association — $1,018 · Other+7 more — $3,162 · Other+7 moreYAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY — $14,177 · Community ImprovementYAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETYDANA HALL SCHOOL — $2,643 · EducationDANA HALL SC…THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION — $2,635 · EducationTHE UNIVERSI…INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC — $400 · EducationINSTITUTE FO…TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION — $377 · EducationTENACRE COUN…THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $2,760 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $1,033 · AnimalsUNITED WAY INC — $1,636 · PhilanthropyDucks Unlimited Inc — $865 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $325 · EnvironmentWORLD VISION INC — $638 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated — $200 · InternationalHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES — $377 · Human Services
Other$26,336Community Improvement$14,177Education$6,055Animals$3,793Philanthropy$1,636Environment$1,190International$838Human Services$377

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY — $14,177 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $2,760 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDANA HALL SCHOOL — $2,643 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION — $2,635 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $1,775 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC — $1,636 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT — $1,320 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $1,033 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $865 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $638 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA TAU DELTA — $577 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES — $377 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION — $377 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated — $200 over 1y, 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 YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY
  • Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY INC
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC
  • Who funds DELTA TAU DELTA
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC
  • Who funds HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES
  • Who funds TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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How do I get to Sokol Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sokol Foundation Inc 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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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