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Sohum 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $317k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAND IN HAND USA | $125,175 |
| KRIYA YOGA INSTITUTE (VEGA INSTITUTE) | $66,000 |
| INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $61,300 |
| AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION (AIF) - CHICAGO CHAPTER | $25,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| KOPE LION | $10,000 |
| SECOND SENSE | $2,000 |
| TODD MARTIN YOUTH LEADERSHIP (TMYL) | $2,000 |
| IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO | $1,150 |
| FRIENDS OF THE KAFIKA HOUSE | $500 |
| HIMALAYAN ACADEMY | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- HIHand in Hand USA4× · 2022–2025 · $457k · revenue +53%
- IAINDEGO AFRICA PROJECT5× · 2021–2025 · $276k · revenue +56%
- KIKOPELION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF KAFIKA HOUSE F/K/A FRIENDS OF THE PLASTER HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +81%
- AFALLPEOPLEBEHAPPY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -97%
- BTBy The Hand Club For Kidsone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
Heart Attack Ethiopia Inc. ("HAE") is a nonprofit organization founded by two Ethiopian-American physicians that are dedicated to combating the alarming increase in the premature death rates resulting from heart attacks and strokes in…
The Ihangane Project achieves lasting improvements in health outcomes, beginning in Rwanda, by promoting community-driven solutions that strengthen national health systems. The successful solutions we co-create with local communities are…
Maternal Health Foundation is dedicated to treatment and prevention of childbirth injuries by building sustainable capacity with local partners in Sub-Saharan Africa supporting world-renowned doctors, researchers and hospitals that treat…
We develop and implement programs and initiatives based on needs asses ments conducted by health professionals and experts on the ground in Tigray, Ethiopia and Sudan.
Raises awareness about the challenges in eastern democratic republic of congo, engages in strategic advocacy to end violence against women, and provides grants to panzi hospital to heal women & restore lives.
We work to improve the quality and availability of healthcare in tanzania, with an emphasis on providing healthcare for women, children, and the elderly. in 2024, we focused on funding the initial construction of the chihoni medical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indego Africa Project and the most unlike its peers is Allpeoplebehappy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 Hand in Hand USA ↗
- Who funds INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KOPELION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAFIKA HOUSE F/K/A FRIENDS OF THE PLASTER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALLPEOPLEBEHAPPY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SECOND SENSE ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN ACADEMY ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Sohum 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.
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