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Soderholm Family Foundation Inc

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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON$10,000
CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTER OF MADISON$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$2,500
VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC$2,000
ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY$1,000
EDGEWOOD CAMPUS SCHOOL INC$500
02The need
02

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 (FY24–25, $4k) 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%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $2k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $2k → 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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19k · 3 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
1

Total granted

$19k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue -12%
  • VC
    VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue 0%
  • TR
    THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • CD
    CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +40%
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
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
2
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

—
5
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
6
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
7
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
10
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
11
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Honorhealth Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The River Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

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 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC: $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON I…HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $13,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUND…CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S DY…ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMU…CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTER OF MADISON: $5,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S D…EDGEWOOD CAMPUS SCHOOL INC: $500 · OtherEDGEWOOD CAM…VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$20,000Education$13,000Philanthropy$6,000Other$5,500Human Services$4,000Food & Nutrition$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDGEWOOD CAMPUS SCHOOL INC: $500 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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