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The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$89,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$370,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$1.9M36%
FY20238$178k13%
FY202210$156k30%
FY20218$149k25%
FY202011$162k55%
FY201912$140k42%
FY201812$113k25%
FY201719$184kn/a
78% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.2MEducation$493kReligion$6kInternational$6kHealth$600Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CA
VA
MD
NC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Music USA Inc$480,000516%
American Composers Orchestra Inc$350,000110%
American Composers Forum$310,000522%
Voices of Ascension Inc$170,20066%
Music and Arts Programs of America Inc$121,500279%
The National Arts Club$55,00011%
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc$50,00010%
American Piano Awards Inc$50,00014%
New York University$50,00010%
Alexander & Buono Worldwide Inc$20,750368%
Constella Arts$20,0001n/a
Bard College$18,50010%
Fractured Atlas Inc$13,44510%
All-Star Orchestra Summit$10,00014%
Close Encounters With Music$10,00015%
Boulanger Initiative$10,00012%
Manhattan Camerata Inc$7,5003n/a
St Johns Episcopal Church$6,2001n/a
Americas Society Inc$6,00010%
Foundation of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte$5,00010%
Gregg Smith Singers Inc$5,0001n/a
Composers Now Inc$4,00014%
Jose Limon Dance Foundation Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Music USA Inc: $480,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetAmerican Composers Orchestra Inc: $350,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetAmerican Composers Forum: $310,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetVoices of Ascension Inc: $170,200 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetMusic and Arts Programs of America Inc: $121,500 over 2y, 79% of budgetThe National Arts Club: $55,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Piano Awards Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlexander & Buono Worldwide Inc: $20,750 over 3y, 68% of budgetBard College: $18,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $13,445 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAll-Star Orchestra Summit: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetClose Encounters With Music: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBoulanger Initiative: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAmericas Society Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetComposers Now Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetJose Limon Dance Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · New Music USA Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt

How much does The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt give?
The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt reported 14 grants totaling $1,858,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (75%), Education (17%), Religion (0%).
Who are The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New Music USA Inc ($480k), American Composers Orchestra Inc ($350k), American Composers Forum ($310k).
Does The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP.
Where is The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt based?
The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt is based in VA.

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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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