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The Sohn Family Foundation at a glance

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The Sohn Family 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
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$220kEducation$76kAnimals$20kPublic Benefit$11kPhilanthropy$6kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$1kEnvironment$800
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$305k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES$25,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DANNY & RON'S RESCUE: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%COLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $5k → 12%RED FERN ANIMAL RESCUE: $5k → 12%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $25k → 10%COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $884 → 7%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ROCKY MOUNTAINS ACTION FUND: $5k → 12%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $16k → 10%COLORADO ACADEMY: $25k → 7%QF COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $11k → 12%COLORADO ACADEMY: $10k → 7%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $800 → 12%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - DENVER: $100k → 12%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $50k → 12%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $50k → 12%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $20k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS: $1k → 12%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
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
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
2
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc

C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.

Animals
3
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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4
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
5
Denver Botanic Gardens Endowment

Protect the financial security and mission of denver botanic gardens.

Environment
6
Denver Dumb Friends League

Working with our compassionate community, we will end pet homelessness and animal suffering.

Animals
7
The Colorado Humane Society & Spca Inc

See schedule o.to prevent cruelty and neglect of animals within the state of colorado by:-assisting agencies in the enforcement of laws relating to cruelty and neglect of companion animals and equines-educating the public on animal welfare…

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8
Denver Metro Association of Realtors Fka Denver Board of Realtors Inc

Denver metro association of realtors (dmar) exists to advance the interests of realtors in the denver metro area and to promote, support, and unify the real estate industry and member realtors.

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9
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
10
Colorado Association of Realtors

To be the collective voice for real estate and consumer property rights, and to advance colorado realtors as industry leaders in knowledge, ethics, and professionalism.

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11
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
12
Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Red Fern Animal Rescue. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $220,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVERCOLORADO ACADEMY: $35,000 · EducationCOLORADO ACADEMYTrustees of Dartmouth College: $16,245 · EducationTrustees of Dartm…DARTMOUTH COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $25,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH COL…QF COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherQF COMMUNITY …PLANNED PARENTHOOD ROCKY MOUNTAINS ACTION FUND: $5,000 · OtherPLANNED PAREN…DANNY & RONS RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsRED FERN ANIMAL RESCUE: $5,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $5,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $6,083 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $1,000 · HealthDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $800 · Environment
Arts & Culture$220,000Education$51,245Other$41,000Animals$20,000Philanthropy$6,083Housing & Shelter$1,000Health$1,000Environment$800

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 budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $220,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $16,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $6,083 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRED FERN ANIMAL RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $800 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · 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 Sohn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sohn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 13 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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