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Sojourner Trust

Advocacy, education, and philanthropy relating to the root causes of climate change, extractive capitalism, structural inequities, and disinformation; protection of biodiversity through ecosystem restoration; land preservation; nature-based climate and environmental solutions; advocacy and support of indigenous americans, people of…

$505k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Environment$4.9MPhilanthropy$67kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$121M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE OUR HOME PLANET ACTION INC$300,000
MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC$25,000
SOAR INC$20,000
VENTURA CITZENS FOR HILLSIDE PRESERVATION INC$20,000
SANTA BARBARA DEMOCRATIC WOMENS CLUB$12,000
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER$7,705
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY$6,000
HARTMANN FOR SUPERVISOR 2024$5,500
STEPHEN BENNETT FOR ASSEMBLY 2024$5,500
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2.8M → 8%VENTURA CITZENS FOR HILLSIDE PRESERVATION INC: $20k → 10%STEPHEN BENNETT FOR ASSEMBLY 2024: $6k → 14%SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $10k → 14%LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $25k → 14%GEORGETOWN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION INC: $10k → 7%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 7%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 8%HOLDFAST TRUST: $1.5M → 5%MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER: $8k → 14%PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $6k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $67k → 5%HARTMANN FOR SUPERVISOR 2024: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Sustainable Conservation Inc

Sustainable conservation, inc works with the conservation fund, a nonprofit corporation, to create partnerships with the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to protect the outdoor heritage of the united states.

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
4
The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment
5
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
6
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
7
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
8
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

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9
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
10
Sequoia Parks Conservancy

The sequoia parks conservancy funds and enables projects and programs that protect, preserve, and provide access to the natural and cultural resources of sequoia and kings canyon national parks.

Environment
11
The Trust for Public Land Action Fund

Nonprofit support of park and conservation funding.

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12
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is League of Conservation Voters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Soar Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,906,384 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more — $67,000 · PhilanthropyHOLDFAST TRUST — $1,500,000 · EnvironmentHOLDFAST TRUST+2 more — $27,705 · EnvironmentSAVE OUR HOME PLANET ACTION INC — $300,000 · OtherSAVE OUR …THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $50,000 · OtherTHE NATUR…VENTURA CITZENS FOR HILLSIDE PRESERVATION INC — $20,000 · Other+5 more — $39,000 · Other+5 moreLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsGEORGETOWN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$2,973,384Environment$1,527,705Other$409,000Civil Rights$25,000Arts & Culture$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,906,384 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHOLDFAST TRUST — $1,500,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSAVE OUR HOME PLANET ACTION INC — $300,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $67,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOAR INC — $20,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetGEORGETOWN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $7,705 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Sojourner Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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