Oregon · Private foundation
So Hum Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations So Hum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 57 | $1.1M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $970k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $996k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $987k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $1.0M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Aravind Inc Dba Aravind Eye Foundation Inc | $745,000 | 6 | 30% |
| Every Woman Treaty Inc | $504,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Self Enhancement Inc | $210,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Neighbors for Kids | $180,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Nomad Foundation | $161,000 | 6 | 43% |
| Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition | $160,500 | 5 | 9% |
| Spoon Foundation | $153,500 | 6 | 8% |
| Healing Art Missions | $150,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Bark | $132,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition Inc | $122,700 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
So Hum Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to So Hum Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About So Hum Foundation
- How much does So Hum Foundation give?
- So Hum Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $1,119,475 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does So Hum Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (36%), Health (18%), Environment (10%).
- Who are So Hum Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Friends of Aravind Inc Dba Aravind Eye Foundation Inc ($745k), Every Woman Treaty Inc ($504k), Self Enhancement Inc ($210k).
- Does So Hum Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does So Hum Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as So Hum Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Autzen Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.
- Where is So Hum Foundation based?
- So Hum Foundation is based in OR.
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