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Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$350k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2024
26
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$52,600
Organizations funded a year
20 to 30
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$5.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyHuman 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
FY2024still arriving28$350k11%
FY202326$321k8%
FY202228$335k11%
FY202130$416k27%
FY202023$358k9%
FY201925$208k24%
FY201825$160k36%
FY201720$114kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$968kHuman Services$271kFood & Nutrition$207kHealth$176kArts & Culture$115kHousing & Shelter$102kCommunity Improvement$64kReligion$62kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Spring Hill College$525,80080%
University of Mobile$220,10280%
University of South Alabama$82,5003n/a
Victory Health Partners Inc$52,00071%
Southwest Alabama Workforce Development Council Region 9 Inc$48,23133%
First Light Community of Mobile Inc$35,50021%
McKemie Place Inc$30,00034%
Historic Restoration Society Inc$27,50081%
Delta Bike Project$19,00063%
Autism2Ability Inc$17,000415%
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All grantees of Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Spring Hill College$525,80080%
University of Mobile$220,10280%
University of South Alabama$82,5003n/a
Victory Health Partners Inc$52,00071%
Southwest Alabama Workforce Development Council Region 9 Inc$48,23133%
First Light Community of Mobile Inc$35,50021%
McKemie Place Inc$30,00034%
Historic Restoration Society Inc$27,50081%
Delta Bike Project$19,00063%
Autism2Ability Inc$17,000415%
Wings of Life Inc$16,50060%
Men of St Joseph Inc$11,0006n/a
St Marys Home$6,5003n/a
Community Services Vision Rehab$5,00012%
The Light of the Village a Nonprof Corporation$4,00011%
United Way of Central Alabama Inc$2,50010%
Penelope House Inc$2,50010%
Taps Drill$5001n/a

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpring Hill College: $525,800 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Mobile: $220,102 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVictory Health Partners Inc: $52,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetSouthwest Alabama Workforce Development Council Region 9 Inc: $48,231 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFirst Light Community of Mobile Inc: $35,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMcKemie Place Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetHistoric Restoration Society Inc: $27,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetDelta Bike Project: $19,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetAutism2Ability Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetWings of Life Inc: $16,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Services Vision Rehab: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Light of the Village a Nonprof Corporation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Central Alabama Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPenelope House Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 14.

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.

Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank TrusteeAL24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Florence Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Mapp Family Foundation · Julien E Marx Foundation Trust · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Roberts Charitable Foundation · The Hyman 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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About Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation

How much does Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation give?
Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $349,723 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Human Services (12%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Spring Hill College ($526k), University of Mobile ($220k), University of South Alabama ($83k).
Does Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Florence Foundation.
Where is Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation based?
Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation is based in AL.

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 53 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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