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Foundation Di Sogna at a glance

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Foundation Di Sogna

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$595k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$625kHealth$22kAnimals$11kHuman Services$11kArts & Culture$10kEmployment$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kPhilanthropy$3k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $25
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $145k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$145,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Santa Clara University$450,000
Saint Francis High School$145,000
Hospice Foundation of America$25
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $150 → 6%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Foundation Di Sogna’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 94%.

Foundation Di Sognalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$501k · 5 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$501k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+24%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    4× · 2019–2024 · $479k · revenue +20%
  • WH
    WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +61%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SA
    SUTTER AUBURN FAITH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • VS
    Villa Siena Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +477%
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +24%
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
3
American Society of Anesthesiologists

Advancing the practice and securing the future of anesthesiology through medical education, creation and dissemination of new knowledge, improvement of patient care, and legislative and regulatory advocacy.

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4
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
5
Santafe Senior Living Foundation Inc

To enrich the life of each senior we serve.

Housing & Shelter
6
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
7
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
8
California Life Sciences Association

Clsa advances californias world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses.

Community Improvement
9
Skagit Hospice Foundation

To fund the program and services of hospice of the nothwest to ensure dignified and compassionate care is available to anyone coping with a life-limiting diagnosis.one size doesn't always fit all, especially when it comes to quality of…

Health
10
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
11
National Veterans Foundation Inc

To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.

—
12
Saint Agnes Medical Foundation

We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical foundation is a member of saint agnes medical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hospice Foundation of America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $479,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGESaint Francis High School: $145,000 · OtherSaint Francis High SchoolSUTTER AUBURN FAITH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherSUTTER AUBURN FAITH FOUNDATI…Villa Siena Foundation: $10,000 · OtherVilla Siena Foundation+6 more: $6,761 · OtherSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10,000 · HealthSt Charles Foundation Inc: $2,000 · HealthWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $11,205 · AnimalsNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 · Human ServicesCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $150 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Education$479,000Other$171,761Health$12,000Animals$11,205Arts & Culture$10,000Human Services$2,650Philanthropy$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $479,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $11,205 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVilla Siena Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Charles Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN LUIS OBISPO CO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $129 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation Di Sogna funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation Di Sogna. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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