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So Inclined Philanthropic Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of So Inclined Philanthropic Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year So Inclined Philanthropic Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $332k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN MATEO COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INC | $99,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI | $27,370 |
| CHARIDY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC | $5,000 |
| PROJECT WHY | $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 (FY20–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- AFAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +4%
- SMSan Mateo County Health Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $962k · revenue +167% · 56% of their budget
- TLTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- CHCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +70%
- NUNOVA UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -45%
- EBEVANGELICAL BAPTIST UKRAINIAN CHURCH OF SACRAMENTOone grant, 2022 · $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.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…
The friends of the tel aviv sourasky medical center helps to raise support for projects that are chosen based upon the priorities set by the tel aviv sourasky medical center. dedicated to the medical center's development and success,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Services and the most unlike its peers is Computer History Museum. 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, 2017–2025.
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. 14 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 American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds San Mateo County Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds THUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC ↗
- Who funds CHARIDY GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC ↗
- Who funds FORESTRY CRAB FEED ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 So Inclined Philanthropic 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.