· Private foundation
The Sokol 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS | $4,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,200 |
| INGLIS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $869 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL | $750 |
| LUCKY DOG RESCUE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| WINE TO WATER | $500 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| BOYS TOWN | $500 |
| WORTHINGTON RESOURCE PANTRY | $500 |
| SENIOR HEARTS RESCUE | $500 |
| GLORIA DEI CHURCH | $200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
30 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 9 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- IFINGLIS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +8%
- CFCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $800 · revenue +85%
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home3× · 2022–2024 · $700 · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TFTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $150 · revenue +31%
- GPGERSHWIN PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2019 · $100
JUDICIAL WATCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue +141%
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 weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Wisdom without walls is a nonprofit, nondenominational, online learning community that hosts intimate conversations with the most prominent voices in contemporary jewish thought, fostering discussions without ideological barriers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Flying Fur 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 51 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 JENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS ↗
- Who funds INGLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds HOPEPHL ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Wine to Water ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN VILLAGE NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CITY OF ELDERLY LOVE ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION 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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Sokol Family Foundation 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% 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.