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Sony & Maurice Schotland Foundation

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.

$100k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Animals$141kArts & Culture$600Environment$50Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPT$100,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 4% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPT: $100k → 7%THE FUND FOR ANIMALS: $100 → 17%CYRIL CHRISTO: $1k → 12%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $50 → 14%RESCUE ME GEORGIA: $100 → 13%SAEN: $200 → 9%BARKS OF HOPE: $4k → 11%THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE: $200 → 6%CITYPETS VETERINARY CARE & WELLNESS: $800 → 19%ARF: $17k → 7%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $600 → 17%DIANE FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INT'L: $200 → 13%ARF: $5k → 7%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INT'L: $100 → 13%HAMPTONS FILM FESTIVAL: $1k → 7%HAMPTON FILM FESTIVAL: $500 → 7%AMARYLLIS FARM EQUINE RESCUE: $100 → 7%AMARYLLIS FARM EQUINE RESCUE: $100 → 7%SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER: $17k → 7%SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUND: $10k → 7%SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 7%EVELYN ALEXANDER WILDLIFE RESCUE CE: $500 → 7%SAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP: $600 → 7%ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS: $250 → 7%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

NY
OH
NJ
VA
MD
NM
SC
DC
GA

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$55k · 4 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$55k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23
AnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • TS
    THE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $32k · revenue -49%
  • A
    ARF
    2× · 2021–2022 · $22k
  • DF
    Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $300 · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • BO
    BARKS OF HOPE A NJ NONPROFIT CORP
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +9%
  • IL
    I LOVE MY ISLAND DOGS
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
3
Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu
Animals
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals
6
The Animal Welfare Foundation
7
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
8
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
9
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
10
Rescue Life Inc

The mission of rescue life is to save the lives of wild, farm, and domestic animals which include horses, pigs, donkeys, llamas, zebras, alpacas,and dogs. the mission includes providing care, shelter, and adoption services. rescue life…

Animals
11
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
12
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund 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

10 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPT — $100,000 · OtherTHE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTARF — $22,100 · OtherARF+11 more — $6,200 · OtherTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC — $32,100 · AnimalsTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SH…BARKS OF HOPE A NJ NONPROFIT CORP — $4,000 · AnimalsBARKS OF HOPE A NJ NONPRO…+4 more — $1,150 · AnimalsSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC — $600 · Arts & CultureWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $50 · Environment
Other$128,300Animals$37,250Arts & Culture$600Environment$50

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC — $32,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBARKS OF HOPE A NJ NONPROFIT CORP — $4,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMARYLLIS FARM EQUINE RESCUE INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fund for Animals Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $50 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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC11.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Sony & Maurice Schotland Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Sony & Maurice Schotland Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sony & Maurice Schotland Foundation 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 21 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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