Connecticut · Private foundation
The Sooner 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.
- $92k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 70
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $876k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Sooner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $89k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 70 | $110k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $57k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $71k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $74k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $52k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $55k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $68k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Buzzards Bay Coalition | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Robert F Kennedy Children's Action Corps Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Milton Academy | $16,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Park School Corporation | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Henry L Ferguson Museum | $12,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England | $11,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Epilepsy Foundation of America | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fishers Island Library Association | $9,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Milton Playground Planners Inc | $9,250 | 4 | 20% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($259k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sooner Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Fairfield Foundation · The Willinphila Foundation · The McCance Foundation · The William C and Cindy L Scott Foundation · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jeanann Gray Dunlap Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Sooner Foundation
- How much does The Sooner Foundation give?
- The Sooner Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $92,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 70 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sooner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Health (20%), Environment (10%).
- Who are The Sooner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ($25k), Buzzards Bay Coalition ($23k), Robert F Kennedy Children's Action Corps Inc ($20k).
- Does The Sooner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sooner 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 Sooner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, The Fairfield Foundation.
- Where is The Sooner Foundation based?
- The Sooner Foundation is based in CT.
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