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So Inclined Philanthropic Foundation at a glance

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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.

$332k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

4
’20
4
’21
5
’22
7
’23
4
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.8MHealth$2.0MArts & Culture$100kInternational$52kReligion$35kHuman Services$30kScience & Tech$25kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PROJECT WHY$5,000
FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $30k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 3 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$3.6M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+70%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureSocial ScienceReligionEducationCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AF
    American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +4%
  • SM
    San Mateo County Health Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $962k · revenue +167% · 56% of their budget
  • TL
    THUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +70%
  • NU
    NOVA UKRAINE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -45%
  • EB
    EVANGELICAL BAPTIST UKRAINIAN CHURCH OF SACRAMENTO
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
2
American Friends Tomchai Shabat Foundation
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3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
7
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.…

Arts & Culture
8
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

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.

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9
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
10
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
11
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

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…

Religion
12
Friends of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Inc

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Services; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $2,577,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ+3 more: $52,370 · InternationalTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,200,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF TH…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationSan Mateo County Health Foundation: $962,000 · OtherSan Mateo County Healt…+3 more: $40,000 · OtherTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $30,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $25,000 · ReligionAMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY ABROAD INC: $9,600 · Social ScienceBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
International$2,629,370Education$1,205,000Other$1,002,000Arts & Culture$125,000Human Services$30,000Religion$25,000Social Science$9,600Crime & Legal$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $2,577,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Mateo County Health Foundation: $962,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $100,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $27,370 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHARIDY GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY ABROAD INC: $9,600 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORESTRY CRAB FEED: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization So Inclined Philanthropic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from So Inclined Philanthropic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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