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Soli Deo Gloria Foundation at a glance

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Soli Deo Gloria Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$310k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$310kHuman Services$300kReligion$260kEducation$150kPhilanthropy$105kInternational$95kArts & Culture$60kPublic Benefit$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$45,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INCOMMON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$150,000
EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW$50,000
NETWORK COFFEE HOUSE$45,000
PLAY ON PHILLY$25,000
MAJI SAFI GROUP$20,000
EQUITY ARC$20,000
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 (FY22–24, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INCOMMON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $150k → 12%INCOMMON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $75k → 12%INCOMMON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $75k → 12%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 7 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$1.1M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+13%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionEducationOther
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

  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW
    5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +125% · 26% of their budget
  • MS
    MAJI SAFI GROUP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +86%
  • PO
    PLAY ON PHILLY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRINITY CLASSICAL ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -6%
  • RF
    RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -10%
  • JA
    JONI AND FRIENDS
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +13%
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
Beauty of Afrikan Sisterhood
Health
2
Angels in Africa
International
3
Vision for Africa
Religion
4
The Malala Fund

We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…

Education
5
Christian Literature for Africa

Literature for africa

Religion
6
Building Schools in Africa
Education
7
Mission Mutual

Equipping mission, ministry, and philanthropic organizations (of similar vision) with the organizational and relational perspective needed to accelerate and enhance their collective impact. mission mutual exists to provide centralized…

International
8
The Fischoff National Chamber Music Association Inc

To promote and encourage development, awareness, and appreciation of the art of chamber music and its role in our culture through education programs, chamber music performances, and sponsorshop of the fischoff chamber music competition.

Arts & Culture
9
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society

To enrich the Twin Cities community by sharing distinctive and engaging chamber orchestra performances. We are committed to inclusivity and strive to provide all people in our community with opportunities to connect with our music.

Arts & Culture
10
Partnership for Indigenous Peoples -Pipes - International

We are a global Christian organization committed to partnering with indigenous peoples, local churches, and community-based organizations to make disciples of Jesus Christ and help end extreme poverty. We serve indigenous pygmies,…

International
11
Jazz Education Network

The jazz education network is dedicated to building the jazz arts community by advancing education, promoting performance, and developing new audiences.

Arts & Culture
12
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equal Justice Under Law; the most unlike its peers is Rosemary Jensen Bible Foundation 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PACIFIC HILLS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $200,000 · OtherPACIFIC HILLS LUTHERAN CHURCHPIONEERS: $80,000 · OtherPIONEERSNETWORK COFFEE HOUSE: $45,000 · OtherNETWORK COFFEE HOUSEJONI AND FRIENDS: $15,000 · OtherRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW: $310,000 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAWMOSAIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $300,000 · Human ServicesMOSAIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPM…TRINITY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $150,000 · EducationTRINITY CLAS…MAJI SAFI GROUP: $105,000 · PhilanthropyPLAY ON PHILLY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureEQUITY ARC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureROSEMARY JENSEN BIBLE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Religion
Other$360,000Crime & Legal$310,000Human Services$300,000Education$150,000Philanthropy$105,000Arts & Culture$60,000Religion$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW: $310,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetMOSAIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $300,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetTRINITY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $150,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMAJI SAFI GROUP: $105,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetROSEMARY JENSEN BIBLE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEQUITY ARC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Soli Deo Gloria Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Soli Deo Gloria Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%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
    2get 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 · 0–15%
    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.

    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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