· Private foundation
Soma Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $731k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+12 grants · $8.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATI | $2,000,000 |
| GORDON-CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $1,500,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,035,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $750,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR THEOLOGICAL | $750,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $750,000 |
| UNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $500,000 |
| VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $400,000 |
| PAN-AFRICAN ACAD CHRST SURGEON | $250,000 |
| WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY | $250,000 |
| SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $250,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $210,000 |
| NAOMI'S VILLAGE | $180,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $175,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $659k 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
- GTGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +6%
- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY6× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +106%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1.5M
- TSTHE SHEPHERDS FUNDone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- FCFLORIDA CONFERENCE OF UMCone grant, 2022 · $600k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
Grace Ministries exists to provide gracious Christian counseling, family ministry, executive coaching, and biblical encouragement to the public via counseling, pastoral care, all sacerdotal ministry duties, hosptial patient care advocacy,…
Joel gregory ministries is a ministry of preaching, teaching, writing, and consulting at churches, conferences, educational institutions and with individuals for purposes of proclaiming and teaching the christian faith.
Biblical counseling
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
Reclaim individuals from a life of addiction, Rebuild them in spiritual sobriety in Christ, and Restore them to productive, Christ-like service in society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pastoral Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Harry J Lloyd Charitable Trust. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 136 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 Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
- Who funds NEMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds NAOMI'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds International Friendship Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds House of TIME Inc ↗
- Who funds MICAH'S PROMISE INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · The Cms Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Fry and Dupont Kirven Foundation Inc · McClure Family Foundation Inc Co Truist Foundations & Endowments Spec · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · The Waterfall Foundation Inc
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 Soma Foundation Inc 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.
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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