· Private foundation
Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE - MAIN STREET MOBILE INC | $10,000 |
| VAGABOND MISSIONS - MOBILE | $10,000 |
| MULHERIN HOME | $10,000 |
| DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- BABARTON ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- DMDOWNTOWN MOBILE DISCRICT MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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