How much does The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation give?

The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $151,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 55 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Philanthropy (15%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Fresh Air Society ($39k), Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc ($30k), United Way for Southeastern Michigan ($28k).

Does The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation 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 Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Jewish Foundation, The Kresge Foundation.

Where is The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation based?

The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation is based in MI.

The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation

The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik 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.

$152k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$11k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$165kPhilanthropy$134kArts & Culture$97kHuman Services$84kReligion$83kRecreation & Sports$80kYouth Development$55kCivil Rights$39kOther$0

02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k52 grants · $141k
$10k–50k1 grant · $11k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT	$10,500
FRESH AIR SOCIETY	$7,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN	$5,000
METRO DETROIT HILLEL FOUNDATION	$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY	$5,000
FARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL	$4,500
BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY	$4,500
HILLEL DAY SCHOOL	$4,500
COALITION ON TEMPORARY SHELTER	$4,000
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER	$4,000
FOCUS HOPE	$3,500
Individual grant recipient	$3,500
RUTH ELLIS CENTER	$3,500
ISAAC AGREE DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE	$3,500
YAD EZRA	$3,500

02The need

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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$807k · 56 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$807k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+22%

Still filing today

52%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalOther

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

FA
FRESH AIR SOCIETY
6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +332%
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +36%
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +72%

Funded once

AH
AKIVA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $4k
JC
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
one grant, 2024 · $1k
CM
CHAMBER MUSIC DETROIT
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +22%

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.

The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education

Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture

Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights

Jfa Non-Profit Housing Corporation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Housing & Shelter

Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor

To nurture the development of knowledgeable, caring and committed Jewish children in a dynamic learning environment. Through exceptional general and Judaic studies and Hebrew language immersion, students create a meaningful and joyous…

—

Jsl Foundation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Human Services

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

United Jewish Foundation

The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…

Philanthropy

Jewish Historical Society of Michigan

Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.

—

The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Higher Hopes. 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

32 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. 32 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

26/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$517,200Philanthropy$106,500Arts & Culture$78,000Recreation & Sports$63,000Human Services$55,500Education$44,000Housing & Shelter$40,000

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

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Jewish Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · William Davidson Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Hermelin Family Support Foundation · Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey 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 Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik 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.

Play a game based on Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home