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Sokoloff Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sokoloff 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.

$728k
Granted FY2023
33
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

66% of Sokoloff Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Sokoloff Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $728k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

32
’20
9
’21
43
’22
25
’23
34
’24
12
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.9MInternational$862kHuman Services$271kHealth$183kArts & Culture$95kReligion$23kEducation$17kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k29 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $102k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$200
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFYA FOUNDATION INC$600,000
JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK (JCCA)$42,000
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$30,000
ACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY$30,000
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY$7,500
MANHATTAN THEATER CLUB$6,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF WESTCHESTER$4,475
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$2,400
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC$1,367
ACLU FOUNDATION$600
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER USA$600
MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN$336
NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY$270
SCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS$250
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$250
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 (FY21–25, $859k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $100 → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $100 → 14%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $600k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 9%DOROT INC: $100 → 17%DOROT INC: $100 → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 47 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 17 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
27

Total granted

$1.6M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+19%

Still filing today

81%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TA
    THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $859k · revenue +28%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +46%
  • MT
    MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $42k
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPH MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
8
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

—
9
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
10
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
11
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

—
12
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Mount Pleasant Cottage School Foundation Inc. 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

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 94 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
50/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1,690,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $180,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW…THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $859,000 · Human ServicesTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERIC…+3 more: $800 · Human ServicesJEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK (JCCA): $228,000 · OtherJEWISH CHI…JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION (JCCA): $42,000 · OtherJEWISH CHI…+48 more: $45,381 · Other+48 moreACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $180,000 · Health+4 more: $2,100 · HealthINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $5,300 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $4,800 · Arts & Culture+20 more: $9,668 · Arts & CultureLEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $11,500 · EducationQUAKER RIDGE EMPLOYEE CHARITY FUND: $2,500 · EducationHAYGROUND SCHOOL INC: $1,200 · EducationMIT International Inc: $1,000 · Education+4 more: $550 · EducationTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Religion
Philanthropy$1,870,000Human Services$859,800Other$315,381Health$182,100Arts & Culture$79,768Education$16,750Religion$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1,690,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $859,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $180,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $5,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAYGROUND SCHOOL INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $1,086 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIT International Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOUNT PLEASANT COTTAGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART: $975 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $922 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCUIT ARTS INC: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $670 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $605 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $420 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $407 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREES 78 FOUNDATION: $400 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $330 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $310 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIFORMED FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION VILLAGE OF SCARSDALE: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER GOLF ASSOCIATION CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…National Philanthropi…The Hyde and Watson F…The Bessemer Giving F…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…The Bank of America C…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Jewish Communal FundNY20.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Sokoloff Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sokoloff Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Circuit Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Sokoloff Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sokoloff 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 94 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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