· Private foundation
Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of HARRY J AND ALOYIS L SONNEBORN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $243k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINGHILL COLLEGE | $52,600 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $27,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $27,000 |
| VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE | $24,000 |
| MCKEMIE PLACE | $20,000 |
| FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY HOME | $19,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FEED THE GULF COAST | $15,000 |
| USA HELATH (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA) | $13,500 |
| DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB | $10,000 |
| DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE - MAIN STREET MOBILE INC | $10,000 |
| VAGABOND MISSIONS - MOBILE | $10,000 |
| MULHERIN HOME | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +22%
- VHVictory Health Partners Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +18%
- AIAutism2Ability Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- BABARTON ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- DMDOWNTOWN MOBILE DISCRICT MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.
To provide education, therapeutic services and counseling for residents with disabilities to people in over 20 alabama counties.
The Home of Grace for Women, Inc. is a resident alcohol and drug recovery program serving women primarily from southwest Alabama. Short term lodging is available for program graduates.
Retirement and nursing home care
Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.
It is the mission of housing first, inc. to secure resources and assets, which lead to community planning to end homelessness through advocacy and community collaboration.
Catholic Social Services, an agency of the Archdiocese of Mobile, is an organized expression of the Church's concern for social justice and well-being. As such, all activity is to mirror the loving care and concern of Christ for those in…
Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.
To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Provides training for adults with developmental disabilities in an adult training setting and supervised alternative living arrangements for washington county, alabama
Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Restoration Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Delta Bike Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SPRING HILL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE ↗
- Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA BIKE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Autism2Ability Inc ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHAB ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.