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The Sokol Foundation Inc

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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$5.4MHealth$1.7MInternational$1.5MEducation$657kYouth Development$310kHuman Services$230kArts & Culture$184kPhilanthropy$121kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$676k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIZNER PARK CULTURAL ARTS ASSN INC$7,500
TEMPLE B'NAI JESHURUN$6,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$5,000
MELISSA VOSBURG INC$5,000
HADASSAH$5,000
HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES$5,000
GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$3,500
BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART$3,000
PALM BEACH SCHOOL FOR AUTISM$3,000
STRONGER THAN YOU THINK INC$2,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD COUNTY$2,500
ALI'S HOPE FOUNDATION$2,500
INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION$2,500
JACK & JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FDN$2,500
BEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION$1,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $480k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $10k → 12%STRONGER THAN YOU THINK INC: $3k → 9%CARTER HOUSE: $3k → 19%OPERATION JERSEY CARES INC: $1k → 5%ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $5k → 12%JEWISH ADOPTION & FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $5k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREGIVER YOUTH: $3k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $50k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $50k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $50k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $50k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $50k → 11%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT FDN: $65k → 11%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT FDN: $58k → 11%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT FDN: $25k → 11%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT FDN: $25k → 11%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT FDN: $10k → 11%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT FDN: $5k → 11%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT FDN: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
KY
VA
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 38 repeat orgs$7.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
51

Total granted

$2.8M
$7.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+22%

Still filing today

71%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BU
    BRYANT UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +31%
  • IT
    ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $275k · revenue +80%
  • BF
    BEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $257k · revenue +409%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $5.3M · revenue -11%
  • SMILE TRAIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.1M · revenue +79%
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
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Easter Seals Florida Inc

See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission

Health
3
Better Together Strengthening Familes Inc

Better together helps at-risk families by empowering parents and surrounding them with community, meaningful work opportunities, and practical support. our volunteer-driven, professionally supported model provides direct services so that…

Human Services
4
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
5
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
6
Childnet Inc

Childnet's mission is to protect broward and palm beach counties' abused, abandoned and neglected children, to ensure their safety and to promptly provide them with a permanent, loving home.

Human Services
7
The Brain Tumor Network Inc

The brain tumor network (btn) is dedicated to providing compassionate, personalized navigation services to brain tumor patients and caregivers. btn also assists patients in finding clinical trials that may be an appropriate match for them.…

Health
8
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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9
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
10
Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc

Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)

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11
Nami Palm Beach County Inc

Nami palm beach county provides advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.

Health
12
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mizner Park Cultural Arts Association 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

64 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. 64 of the 95 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
45/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $5,250,000 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY+1 more: $1,380 · ReligionSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,125,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN: $105,000 · OtherGEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $77,120 · OtherSweet Dream Makers Inc: $93,000 · Other+56 more: $533,310 · Other+56 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,125,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · InternationalISRAEL TENNIS CE…THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: $57,000 · International+5 more: $68,400 · InternationalBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $525,000 · EducationBEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $257,000 · Education+4 more: $41,075 · EducationTHE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $190,800 · Human Services+8 more: $38,700 · Human ServicesTHE JACK AND JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $168,600 · HealthMELISSA VOSBURG INC: $19,000 · HealthLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthHealthy MothersHealthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County Inc: $15,000 · HealthALI'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $3,925 · HealthBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $141,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Religion$5,251,380Other$2,133,430International$1,525,400Education$823,075Human Services$479,500Health$231,525Arts & Culture$143,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $5,250,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,125,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $525,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $257,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetTHE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $190,800 over 7y, 52% of budgetTHE JACK AND JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $168,600 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $141,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSweet Dream Makers Inc: $93,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetGEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $77,120 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: $57,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $55,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $37,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBound For College Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetPALM BEACH SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMELISSA VOSBURG INC: $19,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA HOOPS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHealthy MothersHealthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIZNER PARK CULTURAL ARTS ASSOCIATION INC: $11,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetNat King Cole Generation Hope Inc: $11,375 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALI'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC: $5,186 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLACE OF POSSIBILITY: $5,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $4,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,925 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARTER HOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Boca West Children's …The Chamber of Nonpro…The Batchelor Foundat…United Way of Palm Be…Ballenisles Charities…Ibis Charities Founda…The Selma and Irving …Lost Tree Village Cha…The Jim Moran Foundat…Wycliffe Charities Fo…The Mirasol Foundatio…
Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties IncFL20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Ballenisles Charities Foundation Inc · Ibis Charities Foundation Inc · The Selma and Irving Ettenberg Foundation · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Wycliffe Charities Foundation Inc · The Mirasol Foundation Inc

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 Sokol Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sokol Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Sokol Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Sokol Foundation Inc 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.

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 95 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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