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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.

$369k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$901kReligion$175kHealth$36kYouth Development$7kCommunity Improvement$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Education$500Human Services$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $317k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HIMALAYAN ACADEMY$500
FRIENDS OF THE KAFIKA HOUSE$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF THE PLASTER HOUSE: $15k → 10%HIMALAYAN ACADEMY: $500 → 9%THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $500 → 9%INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $70k → 13%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION (AIF) - CHICAGO CHAPTER: $30k → 17%ALLPEOPLEBEHAPPY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%KRIYA YOGA INSTITUTE: $15k → 15%TODD MARTIN YOUTH LEADERSHIP (TMYL): $2k → 16%HAND IN HAND USA: $129k → 7%TEMPLE OF HARMONY - KRIYA VEDANTA GURUKULAM: $108k → 7%LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE KAFIKA HOUSE: $500 → 10%INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $65k → 13%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION (AIF) - CHICAGO CHAPTER: $28k → 17%HAND IN HAND USA: $125k → 7%TEMPLE OF HARMONY - KRIYA VEDANTA GURUKULAM: $61k → 7%BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $61k → 13%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION (AIF) - CHICAGO CHAPTER: $25k → 17%HAND IN HAND USA: $103k → 7%TEMPLE OF HARMONY - KRIYA VEDANTA GURUKULAM: $47k → 7%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $45k → 13%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION (AIF) - CHICAGO CHAPTER: $24k → 17%HAND IN HAND USA: $100k → 7%TEMPLE OF HARMONY - KRIYA VEDANTA GURUKULAM: $42k → 7%CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $35k → 13%KOPE LION: $25k → 17%TEMPLE OF HARMONY - KRIYA VEDANTA GURUKULAM: $6k → 7%IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $2k → 14%KOPE LION: $15k → 17%IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $1k → 14%KOPE LION: $10k → 17%IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $1k → 14%SECOND SENSE: $3k → 14%SECOND SENSE: $2k → 14%SECOND SENSE: $2k → 14%SECOND SENSE: $2k → 14%SECOND SENSE: $500 → 14%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 9 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+28%

Still filing today

56%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsInternationalHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • HI
    Hand in Hand USA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $457k · revenue +53%
  • IA
    INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $276k · revenue +56%
  • KI
    KOPELION INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KAFIKA HOUSE F/K/A FRIENDS OF THE PLASTER HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +81%
  • AF
    ALLPEOPLEBEHAPPY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -97%
  • BT
    By The Hand Club For Kids
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
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
Kaival Gyan Chicago Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

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…

Health
3
Heart Attack Ethiopia Inc

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…

Health
4
Tip Global Health

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…

Health
5
Maternal Help Hope Fund

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…

Health
6
Annapurna Global Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Conversationalist
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8
Health Professionals Network for Tigray

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.

Health
9
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Panzi Foundation

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.

International
11
Laogai Research Foundation
International
12
International Health Partners - Us Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indego Africa Project; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $265,101 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKRIYA YOGA INSTITUTE (VEGA INSTITUTE): $110,000 · OtherKRIYA YOGA INSTITUTE (VEGA INSTITUTE)AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION (AIF) - CHICAGO CHAPTER: $107,900 · OtherAMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION (AIF) - CHICAGO CHAP…KRIYA YOGA INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 · OtherKRIYA YOGA INSTITUTE INC+6 more: $27,500 · OtherHand in Hand USA: $457,400 · HealthHand in Hand USA+3 more: $25,500 · HealthINDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $275,500 · InternationalINDEGO AFRICA PROJECTKOPELION INC: $50,000 · AnimalsIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $4,500 · PhilanthropyLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$575,501Health$482,900International$275,500Animals$50,000Philanthropy$4,500Housing & Shelter$1,000Arts & Culture$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 budgetHand in Hand USA: $457,400 over 4y, 21% of budgetINDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $275,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetKOPELION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAFIKA HOUSE F/K/A FRIENDS OF THE PLASTER HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetALLPEOPLEBEHAPPY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSECOND SENSE: $9,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sohum Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sohum Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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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