· Private foundation
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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLYWOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joe Sonken Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe Sonken Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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