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Solo Deo
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TWIN LAKES CHURCH | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| RAFIKI FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY COVENANT CHURCH | $3,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $2,000 |
| UC REGENTS UC DAVIS - ATHLETES IN ACTION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,700 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $1,500 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INIATIVE | $1,300 |
| EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP | $1,000 |
| A PRIMALLY PLAYFUL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - GOLD COUNTRY REGION | $750 |
| YOLO FOOD BANK | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SACRAMENTO | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 34% of Solo Deo’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 38% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- RFRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +27%
- ENEVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +98%
Mercy Ships International6× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- LCLAKESIDE CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CHCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +180%
- MSMISSION SPRINGSone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Our mission is to connect people to quality giving and volunteer opportunities worldwide. universalgiving is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, whose vision is to create a world where giving and volunteering are a natural part of everyday…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Worldreader is a global tech nonprofit, providing award-winning free-digital reading app, booksmart, to help families prepare young children for learning, by fostering reading routines-a proven formula to build school-readiness and…
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bulldog Club of America Rescue Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 47 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 RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds A PRIMALLY PLAYFUL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND ↗
- Who funds YOLO COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds 3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BULLDOG CLUB OF AMERICA RESCUE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNICARE HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds YOLO FOOD BANK ↗
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: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Solo Deo 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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