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Sior Foundation
Washington, DC · EIN 52-0808480. Reported 55 grants totalling $1,007,143 to 25 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Sior Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for community improvement (NTEE S125).
- How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 25% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $118,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors | Washington, DC | $247,071 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Real Estate Executive Council Inc | New York, NY | $175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Portland State University Foundation | Portland, OR | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors | Charleston, SC | $60,676 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Montclair State University Foundation Inc | Montclair, NJ | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Board of the University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Society of Industrial & Office Realtors Dfw North Tx Chapter Inc | Dallas, TX | $38,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Society of Industrial and Office Realtors Minnesota Chapter Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $36,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Connecticut Western Massachusetts Chapter of the | Guilford, CT | $33,766 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cleveland State University Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $30,675 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Goldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Philadelphia Chapter of the Society of Industrial & Office Realtors | Lemoyne, PA | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sior-St Louis Chapter | Clayton, MO | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Texas A&m Foundation | College Sta, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Society of Industrial and Office Realtors | Lisle, IL | $18,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Society of Industrial and Office Retailers-Florida Chapter Inc | Tampa, FL | $16,205 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohio Chapter of the Society of Industrial & Office Realtors | Westlake, OH | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sior Houston | Houston, TX | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Crei Events LLC | Dunwoody, GA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Society of Industrial and Office Realtors | Foothill Rnch, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sior Oregon Chapter | Portland, OR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sior Oregon Chapter | Portland, OR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors | Phoenix, AZ | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors | Boise, ID | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Western Mo-Ks Chapter - Society of Industrial & Office Realtors | Leawood, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
13 of 25 (52%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Society of Industrial and Office Realtors
TO SUPPORT INFORMATIVE ARTICLES ON TIMELY, RELEVANT TOPICS IN COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY ON CURRENT INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC TRENDS. TO SUPPORT COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING THAT INCLUDED SPEAKERS FROM THE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY ON CURRENT INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC TRENDS. - Montclair State University Foundation
TO SUPPORT ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FOR REAL ESTATE STUDENTS - Real Estate Executive Council
TO SUPPORT SUMMER ACADEMIC PROGRAM FOR UNDERSERVED AND DISADVANTAGED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS - Portland State University Foundation
TO HELP ESTABLISH ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDENTS ENGAGED IN REAL ESTATE STUDIES - Cleveland State University Foundation
TO HELP ESTABLISH A SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS ENGAGED IN BUSINESS AND REAL ESTATE STUDIES - The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama
TO SUPPORT PROGRAM THAT EMPOWERS OVER 100,000 MEMBERS OF UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS IN THE FIELD OF REAL ESTATE BY 2032 BY PARTNERING WITH INDUSTRY TO DELIVER CREDENTIAL-BASED ENTRY LEVEL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | $165,255 | $8,625 |
| 2021 | 16 | $278,533 | $9,898 |
| 2022 | 14 | $236,277 | $11,250 |
| 2023 | 15 | $327,078 | $8,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
25% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Sior Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 3 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 12 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1307 New York Avenue Nw 703, Washington, DC, 20005.
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