Virginia · Private foundation
The Sophron 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.
- $55k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,962
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Sophron Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 13 | $55k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $20k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $21k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $38k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $30k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $44k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $29k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $39k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corp | $65,760 | 7 | 1% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oregon | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lorton Community Action Center Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Project Lemonade Inc | $24,098 | 4 | 1% |
| Ozone House Inc | $12,167 | 7 | 0% |
| Bradley Angle | $11,926 | 6 | 0% |
| The Next Door Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Tanzanian Childrens Fund Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Transitional School | $7,140 | 4 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sophron 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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Wheeler Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
How this is measured
About The Sophron Foundation
- How much does The Sophron Foundation give?
- The Sophron Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $54,703 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sophron Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (22%), Human Services (14%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Sophron Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corp ($66k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oregon ($30k), Lorton Community Action Center Inc ($25k).
- Does The Sophron Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sophron 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 Sophron Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Juan Young Trust, OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation.
- Where is The Sophron Foundation based?
- The Sophron Foundation is based in VA.
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