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Solstice 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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$10kReligion$9kArts & Culture$8kHuman Services$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCrime & Legal$3kCivil Rights$1kPhilanthropy$20Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSIGHT SEMINARS$2,800
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$20
02The need
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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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%INSIGHT SEMINARS: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
DE
DC
AL
TX
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

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
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
2
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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3
Aire Ventures Inc

At aire ventures, we scale technology and innovation solutions to systemic gaps in access, opportunity, and racial equity.

Community Improvement
4
Inequality Media

To use digital media for the purpose of educating and engaging the public in topics regarding inequality and imbalance of power in america.

Arts & Culture
5
Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
7
Center for Conflict Resolution

The mission of the organization (ccr) shall be to work with individuals, communities, courts, and other institutions to manage and resolve conflict.

Crime & Legal
8
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
9
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
10
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

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11
American Center for International Labor Solidarity

To empower workers to raise their voice for dignity on the job, justice in their communities and greater equality in the global economy.

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12
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is South Bay Artist Collective. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EKAL VIDYAYA FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherEKAL VIDYAYA FOUNDATIONVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY: $5,000 · OtherVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITYIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOPELINK: $2,500 · OtherHOPELINKCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $20 · OtherHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $9,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR UKRAINE INCACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $1,030 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER -…SOUTH BAY ARTIST COLLECTIVE: $7,591 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BAY ARTIST …ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterALL HANDS A…INSIGHT SEMINARS: $2,800 · Human ServicesEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,060 · Civil RightsMOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$19,520International$10,030Arts & Culture$7,591Public Safety & Disaster$5,000Human Services$2,800Civil Rights$2,060Crime & Legal$1,000

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 budgetHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTH BAY ARTIST COLLECTIVE: $7,591 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSIGHT SEMINARS: $2,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $1,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–40%
    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 Solstice Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Solstice 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 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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