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The Soze Foundation Inc

Form 990EZ - Part III - Exempt Purpose The Soze Foundation Inc is led by a collective of activists, storytellers, artists, and strategies that envisions a world in which every person has the ability and resources to empower changes in their community through the use of art and culture.

$411k
Granted FY2023
2
Itemized grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$377k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$371,361
Largest grant, FY2023
$371,361
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$27k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Soze Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Arts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$377k100%
FY20224$25k100%
FY20213$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$381kYouth Development$20kScience & Tech$10kInternational$6kReligion$5kHealth$5kHuman Services$5kCivil Rights$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Art and Advocacy Society$371,361118%
The College and Community Fellowship Inc$20,00011%
New York Shakespeare Festival$10,00010%
Globetops Inc$10,000112%
Moonshotplatforminc$6,00011%
UltraViolet Education Fund$5,00010%
Eternal Seed Providers$5,0001n/a
The Trayvon Martin Foundation$5,00015%
National Student Nurses' Associationinc$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Soze Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArt and Advocacy Society: $371,361 over 1y, 18% of budgetThe College and Community Fellowship Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobetops Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMoonshotplatforminc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUltraViolet Education Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trayvon Martin Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNational Student Nurses' Associationinc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Soze 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.

About The Soze Foundation Inc

How much does The Soze Foundation Inc give?
The Soze Foundation Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $377,361, out of $411,114 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Soze Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Youth Development (5%), Science & Tech (2%).
Who are The Soze Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Art and Advocacy Society ($371k), The College and Community Fellowship Inc ($20k), New York Shakespeare Festival ($10k).
Does The Soze Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Soze Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Soze Foundation Inc based?
The Soze Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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