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Sobecki Family Foundation at a glance

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Sobecki Family 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.8MInternational$1.6MHuman Services$773kHealth$655kYouth Development$406kEducation$322kCivil Rights$98kPhilanthropy$91kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $910k
$13,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$200,000
REGIS HIGH SCHOOL$135,000
CERES$125,000
THE DOOR$100,000
PART OF THE SOLUTION$100,000
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER$75,000
CHILDREN ON THE EDGE$75,000
JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE$50,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$50,000
KARAM FOUNDATION$39,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$13,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$13,000
ACT FOR LEBANON$10,000
ST JOSEPH'S CHILDREN'S HOME$10,000
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 (FY20–23, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $4k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $5k → 9%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $4k → 16%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
MS
AL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 35 repeat orgs$342k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
25

Total granted

$5.7M
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+15%

Still filing today

71%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $903k · revenue +121%
  • CI
    CERES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $730k · revenue +37%
  • NN
    NAMI National
    7× · 2018–2024 · $561k · revenue +461%

Funded once

  • TK
    THE KARMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $90k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • SK
    SOLVING KIDS CANCER CO SCOTT KENNEDY
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
9
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
10
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
11
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
12
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Kgsa Foundation. 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

49 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. 49 of the 69 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
35/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $902,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCO…CERES INC: $730,000 · EnvironmentCERES INC+3 more: $57,000 · EnvironmentTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $341,450 · OtherTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERN…CHILDREN ON THE EDGE: $200,000 · OtherCHILDREN ON THE EDGEREGIS HIGH SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherREGIS HIGH SCHOOLJESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USA: $118,000 · OtherJESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USATHE KARMA FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherTHE KARMA FOUNDATIONENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND CO GIFT PROCESSING: $70,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $59,000 · Other+35 more: $483,874 · Other+35 moreNAMI National: $561,175 · HealthNAMI NationalFXB USA INC: $325,750 · HealthFXB USA INC+5 more: $63,750 · Health+5 moreACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $303,000 · InternationalACTION AGAIN…KGSA FOUNDATION: $200,000 · InternationalKGSA FOUNDAT…Brackett Foundation: $125,000 · InternationalBrackett Fou…+5 more: $56,000 · International+5 moreKARAM FOUNDATION: $638,800 · PhilanthropyKARAM FOUND…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyPART OF THE SOLUTION: $455,000 · Food & NutritionEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $26,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$1,689,500Other$1,562,324Health$950,675International$684,000Philanthropy$639,800Food & Nutrition$455,000Civil Rights$71,500

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 budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $902,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCERES INC: $730,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKARAM FOUNDATION: $638,800 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetNAMI National: $561,175 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $455,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $341,450 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFXB USA INC: $325,750 over 6y, 35% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $303,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKGSA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetBrackett Foundation: $125,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY: $49,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $23,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $15,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToo Young to Wed Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA CHANCE IN LIFEINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE PROTECTION INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACT FOR LEBANON CO FMFSB LLC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBrightspark Early Learning Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC: $2,812 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $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.

  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CERES INC ↗
  • Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAMI National ↗
  • Who funds PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds FXB USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
  • Who funds KGSA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Brackett Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
  • Who funds New Energy Nexus Enventure ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Too Young to Wed Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE 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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Bny Mellon Charitable…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Boston Foundation IncMA14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Sobecki Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sobecki Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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