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Joe Sonken Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLYWOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CECATS EXCLUSIVE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +13%
- LOLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +212%
- BHBOCA HELPING HANDS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +121%
Funded once
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.
Animal welfare we are a Boxer Rescue that our purpose is to get all surrendered boxers rehabbed and vetted all shots training and other services they need before adopting them to their forever home
beagle rescue
To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home
To eliminate euthanasia of treatable, adoptable dogs and cats in maricopa county through adoption, medical care, promotion of spay & neuter and owner education. hfg also operates a low-cost vaccine/microchip clinic each week to provide…
Rescue rehab and rehome dogs and horses in need. We rescue them from auction shelters the streets etc.
Animal Shelter, Adoptions and Related Services
Humane care of animals
The organization owns and operates a low-cost dog and cat spay, neuter and vaccine clinic for low income residents in the state of Florida.
Foster-based animal rescue that rescues homeless and abandoned animals, providing them with veterinary care including specialized care, heartworm treatment, surgery, severe illness treatment & hospitalization, then placing them for…
Provide assistance to miami county pet owners by paying bills for medical issues, including spay/neuter, surgery, etc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sos Children's Villages Floridainc and the most unlike its peers is Dalmatian Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 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 CATS EXCLUSIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYDOGS GREYHOUND ADOPTION INC ↗
- Who funds Dalmatian Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES FLORIDAINC ↗
- Who funds Equine Assisted Therapies of South Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
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: American Express Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · James & Beatrice Salah Charitable Trust Dtd 08-09-2001 · Network for Good · Amazonsmile 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 Joe Sonken Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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