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Sokol Foundation Inc

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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$36kAnimals$6kEnvironment$2kPhilanthropy$2kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kHealth$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$377
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY$2,084
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$1,506
OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION$578
GATHER$377
ALZHEIMERS ASSOC$377
TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$377
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE$377
ROCKY MT ELK FOUNDATION$350
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $377) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Haven: $377 → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
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CA
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CO
NE
VA
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 21 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$57k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+22%

Still filing today

57%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $754 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +247%
  • THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +40%
  • THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +45%

Funded once

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

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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.

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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.

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4
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
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
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
7
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
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
10
United Way Worldwide

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

Philanthropy
11
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Virginia: $15,105 · 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 · OtherMOUNTAIN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,320 · OtherAlzheimer Association: $1,154 · OtherSequoia Natural History Association: $1,018 · Other+10 more: $4,643 · Other+10 moreYAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY: $16,261 · Community ImprovementYAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETYTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $3,012 · EducationTHE UNIVERSI…DANA HALL SCHOOL: $2,643 · EducationDANA HALL SC…TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $754 · EducationTENACRE COUN…INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC: $400 · EducationINSTITUTE FO…THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION: $3,338 · 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 · International
Other$29,323Community Improvement$16,261Education$6,809Animals$4,371Philanthropy$1,636Environment$1,190International$838

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY: $16,261 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION: $3,338 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $3,012 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDANA HALL SCHOOL: $2,643 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 budgetTENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $754 over 2y, 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 budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sokol Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sokol Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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