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Sol Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Community Improvement$28kHuman Services$10kRecreation & Sports$8kEducation$5kPhilanthropy$5kAnimals$3kHealth$3kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2021 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITIBANK FFC 1511-3006$5,000
CITIBANK FFC 7287-9389$5,000
CITIBANK FFC 9299-3157$5,000
CITIBANK FFC 1939-9717$5,000
CITIBANK FFC 8464-4344$5,000
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GUILFORD GREENE FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $5k → 16%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 field
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
3/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITIBANK FFC 8464-4344: $5,000 · OtherCITIBANK FFC 8464-4344CITIBANK FFC 1939-9717: $5,000 · OtherCITIBANK FFC 1939-9717HOPE ACADEMY OF GREENSBORO: $5,000 · OtherHOPE ACADEMY OF GREENSBOROHEROS ON THE WATER: $5,000 · OtherHEROS ON THE WATERCITIBANK FFC 1511-3006: $5,000 · OtherCITIBANK FFC 1511-3006CITIBANK FFC 9299-3157: $5,000 · OtherCITIBANK FFC 9299-3157CITIBANK FFC 7287-9389: $5,000 · OtherCITIBANK FFC 7287-9389ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATIONUNCG FBO MENS BASKETBALL ENHANCEMEN: $3,000 · OtherUNCG FBO MENS BASKETBALL ENHANCEMENBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,500 · OtherSF NEW DEAL: $2,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $2,500 · Other+2 more: $2,000 · OtherGUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesGUILFORD GREEN FO…BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $5,000 · Human ServicesBACKPACK BEGINNIN…UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Education
Other$52,500Human Services$10,000Education$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 GUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sol Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sol 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 17 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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