· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE ELIZABETH & MICHEL SOREL CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION INC C/O STERLING FDN MGMT’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $829k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $50,000 |
| BOULANGER INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k 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
- NMNEW MUSIC USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $480k · revenue +45%
- VOVOICES OF ASCENSION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +148%
- MAMUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $122k · revenue +34% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- APAMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +23%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $33k
- CAConstella Artsone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -100%
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.
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.
Advancement of the art of music and public knowledge therefor by producing performances. Featuring emerging conductors and musical soloists.
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…
To commission and perform new music
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…
To commission and perform choral works
Engage audiences of new music
Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Music Usa Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 44 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 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 ↗
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 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
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 The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt 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.
- Boulanger Initiative — 75% of income from government
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.