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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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$370k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0178% 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
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $829k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$89,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW MUSIC USA$370,000
AMERICAN COMPOSER ORCHESTRA$350,000
SUNY FREDONIA$295,000
AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM$180,000
AMERICAN PIANISTS ASSOCIATION$175,000
MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA$100,000
VOICES OF ASCENSION$89,000
Individual grant recipient$80,000
NATIONAL ARTS CLUB$55,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$50,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$50,000
BOULANGER INITIATIVE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$4,800
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC: $10k → 16%AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $180k → 14%MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA: $100k → 10%SPARKS & WIRY CRIES: $50k → 9%ALL STAR ORCHESTRA: $10k → 9%CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: $10k → 11%VOICES OF ASCENSION: $89k → 17%SUNY FREDONIA: $295k → 18%NEW MUSIC USA: $370k → 20%ALL CLASSICAL PORTLAND: $10k → 12%AMERICAN PIANISTS ASSOCIATION: $175k → 16%CONSTELLA ARTS: $20k → 16%BOULANGER INITIATIVE: $10k → 8%AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $50k → 14%MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA: $22k → 10%SPARKS & WIRY CRIES: $13k → 9%VOICES OF ASCENSION: $26k → 17%SUNY FREDONIA: $60k → 18%NEW MUSIC USA: $30k → 20%AMERICAN PIANISTS ASSOCIATION: $50k → 16%SONGFEST AT COLBURN: $80k → 16%AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $30k → 14%SPARKS & WIRY CRIES: $10k → 9%VOICES OF ASCENSION: $20k → 17%SUNY FREDONIA: $35k → 18%NEW MUSIC USA: $30k → 20%AMERICAN PIANISTS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 16%SONGFEST AT COLBURN: $21k → 16%AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $30k → 14%SPARKS & WIRY CRIES: $10k → 9%VOICES OF ASCENSION: $20k → 17%SUNY FREDONIA: $35k → 18%NEW MUSIC USA: $30k → 20%SONGFEST AT COLBURN: $20k → 16%AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $20k → 14%VOICES OF ASCENSION: $10k → 17%SUNY FREDONIA: $10k → 18%NEW MUSIC USA: $20k → 20%SONGFEST AT COLBURN: $11k → 16%SUNY FREDONIA: $10k → 18%ALEXANDER AND BUONO WORLDWIDE INC: $11k → 17%SUNY FREDONIA: $10k → 18%BARD COLLEGE: $19k → 17%AMERICAN COMPOSER ORCHESTRA: $350k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $50k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $13k → 17%NATIONAL ARTS CLUB: $55k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $50k → 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

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 13 repeat orgs$761k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
26

Total granted

$2.2M
$246k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+80%

Still filing today

38%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalOther
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

  • NM
    NEW MUSIC USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $480k · revenue +45%
  • VO
    VOICES OF ASCENSION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +148%
  • MA
    MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $122k · revenue +34% · 79% of their budget

Funded once

  • AP
    AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • CA
    Constella Arts
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -100%
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 Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

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2
Foundation for Modern Opera
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3
Vanguard Concerts
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4
Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music
Arts & Culture
5
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra

Advancement of the art of music and public knowledge therefor by producing performances. Featuring emerging conductors and musical soloists.

Arts & Culture
6
Cantata Profana Inc

Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…

Arts & Culture
7
The New York New Music Ensemble Inc

To commission and perform new music

Arts & Culture
8
American Composers Alliance

First established in the 1930s, aca has developed as a publishing administrator for american concert music, representing composers and estates through several generations of creative work. with a curated catalog of over 15,000 works, aca…

Arts & Culture
9
C4 Choral Composer Conductor Collective

To commission and perform choral works

Arts & Culture
10
League of Composers Inc

Engage audiences of new music

Arts & Culture
11
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
12
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Music Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

20 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. 20 of the 44 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW MUSIC USA INC: $480,000 · Arts & CultureNEW MUSIC USA INCAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INCAMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $310,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUMVOICES OF ASCENSION INC: $170,200 · Arts & CultureVOICES OF ASCENSION INCMUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA INC: $121,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA INC+8 more: $119,195 · Arts & Culture+8 moreSUNY FREDONIA: $460,000 · OtherSUNY FREDONIAAMERICAN PIANISTS ASSOCIATION: $200,000 · OtherAMERICAN PIANISTS ASSOCIATIONIndividual grant recipient: $164,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $105,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN: $99,432 · OtherORCHESTRA OF THE SWANTHE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB: $55,000 · OtherAMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC: $50,000 · Other+21 more: $179,098 · Other+21 moreNew York University: $50,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $18,500 · EducationAMERICAS SOCIETY INC: $6,000 · International
Arts & Culture$1,550,895Other$1,313,630Education$68,500International$6,000

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

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
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 NEW MUSIC USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM ↗
  • Who funds VOICES OF ASCENSION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDER & BUONO WORLDWIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds Constella Arts ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT ↗
  • Who funds CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds BOULANGER INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAS SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
  • Who funds COMPOSERS NOW INC ↗

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 Fou…The Amphion Foundatio…The Aaron Copland Fun…New Music USA IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 75%
  • Boulanger Initiative: 75% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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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