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The Robert L and Audrey Sockolov Foundation at a glance

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The Robert L and Audrey Sockolov Foundation

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.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$39kHuman Services$34kPhilanthropy$30kRecreation & Sports$20kFood & Nutrition$10kHealth$10kEducation$5kCivil Rights$3k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORLANDO CEPEDA FOUNDATION INC$10,000
INTERNATIONAL BODYTALK FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $10k → 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $10k → 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $9k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 10%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 6 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$95k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+51%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • BR
    BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +8%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE ON AGING
    3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +121%
  • NC
    NORTHERN CALIFORNIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME
    2× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • SF
    San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +70%
  • GF
    GLIDE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +51%
  • EA
    EYES AND EARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
San Francisco Family Foundation
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2
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
4
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
7
Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco Marin & Peninsula

The organization's mission is to educate and advocate on issues of vital importance to the organized jewish community based on consensus, civility and an expanded commitment to living jewish values of social justice.

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8
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
9
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
10
University of Judaism Foundation
—
11
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Philanthropy
12
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Services; the most unlike its peers is International Bodytalk 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRENORTHERN CALIFORNIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $10,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN CALIFORNIA JEWISH SPORTS H…SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYINSTITUTE ON AGING: $29,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE ON AGINGJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRE…ORLANDO CEPEDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherORLANDO CEPEDA FO…SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $8,800 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO GIA…EYES AND EARS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherEYES AND EARS FOU…GLIDE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherGLIDE FOUNDATION+1 more: $500 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $20,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNIT…INTERNATIONAL BODYTALK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc: $5,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$47,500Human Services$34,000Other$23,800Philanthropy$20,000Health$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Education$5,000

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 budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE ON AGING: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $10,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert L and Audrey Sockolov Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert L and Audrey Sockolov Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 14 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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