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Sokolof Grandchildren Charitable Foundat
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of Sokolof Grandchildren Charitable Foundat’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Sokolof Grandchildren Charitable Foundat named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $540k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO | $185,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION | $110,300 |
| GIRLS INC OF OMAHA | $30,000 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FILM STREAMS | $25,000 |
| PROJECT HARMONY | $25,000 |
| CITY OF OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FINANCIAL HOPE COLLABORATION (CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY) | $15,000 |
| SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC | $15,000 |
| FAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $10,000 |
| AICE INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of Sokolof Grandchildren Charitable Foundat’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- NFNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +82%
- PHPROJECT HARMONY9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +117%
- OPOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- OSOMAHA SMALL BUSINESS NETWORK INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- OBOMAHA BY DESIGNgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +83%
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.
To conduct and support activities for the benefit of the jewish federation of omaha.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Center for Advancement and the most unlike its peers is Youth Emergency Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 28 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 THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AICE INC AMERICAN-ISRAELI COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SMALL BUSINESS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA BY DESIGN ↗
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: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Kavich Family Charitable Foundation · Growing Good Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Dixon Family Foundation · Richard Brooke 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 Sokolof Grandchildren Charitable Foundat 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.
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.