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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.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$37MEducation$11MHuman Services$9.8MPhilanthropy$8.5MInternational$6.4MHousing & Shelter$3.4MYouth Development$2.1MHealth$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $731k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+12 grants · $8.7M
$40,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$374M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATI$2,000,000
GORDON-CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$1,500,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$1,035,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR THEOLOGICAL$750,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$750,000
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$750,000
UNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$500,000
VALLEY RESCUE MISSION$400,000
SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$250,000
WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY$250,000
PAN-AFRICAN ACAD CHRST SURGEON$250,000
GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$250,000
YOUNG LIFE$210,000
NAOMI'S VILLAGE$180,000
Individual grant recipient$175,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MOTHER MARY MISSION: $50k → 22%ONE NEED INC: $50k → 6%MUST MINISTRIES: $50k → 8%HOPE HEALS: $25k → 13%MAGNOLIA MANOR: $50k → 22%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%MUST MINISTRIES: $50k → 8%MARY HALL FREEDOM HOUSE: $45k → 13%MAGNOLIA MANOR: $50k → 22%MUST MINISTRIES: $50k → 8%MARY HALL FREEDOM HOUSE: $40k → 13%MAGNOLIA MANOR: $35k → 22%MUST MINISTRIES: $40k → 8%MARY HALL FREEDOM HOUSE: $30k → 13%MAGNOLIA MANOR: $5k → 22%MUST MINISTRIES: $30k → 8%COURAGE FOR LIFE: $15k → 8%MARY HALL FREEDOM HOUSE: $25k → 13%MUST MINISTRIES: $25k → 8%MARY HALL FREEDOM HOUSE: $20k → 13%SER FAMILIA INC: $50k → 8%CLEMENT ARTS: $30k → 18%CLEMENT ARTS: $25k → 18%CLEMENT ARTS: $25k → 18%CLEMENT ARTS: $20k → 18%CLEMENT ARTS: $20k → 18%CLEMENT ARTS: $20k → 18%CLEMENT ARTS: $20k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $620k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $185k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $170k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $145k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $133k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $125k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $120k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $75k → 18%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

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
KS
NC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$74M · 71 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
46

Total granted

$74M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+39%

Still filing today

59%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $659k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • GT
    Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +6%
  • AT
    ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +106%
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M
  • TS
    THE SHEPHERDS FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
  • FC
    FLORIDA CONFERENCE OF UMC
    one grant, 2022 · $600k
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Biblical Counseling and Training Ministries

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.

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3
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
4
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
5
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

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…

Education
6
Grace Ministries Inc

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,…

Human Services
7
Joel Gregory Ministries

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.

Religion
8
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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9
Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion
10
Charis Bible College Inc

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.

Religion
11
GlobalServant Ministries Inc

Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and

Religion
12
His Way Recovery Center of Georgia Inc

Reclaim individuals from a life of addiction, Rebuild them in spiritual sobriety in Christ, and Restore them to productive, Christ-like service in society.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pastoral Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 136 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $9,500,000 · OtherBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,455,867 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $2,800,000 · OtherUNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYSOUTH GA CONFERENCE UMC: $2,250,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR THEOLOGICAL: $2,100,000 · OtherASIAN ACCESS: $1,950,000 · Other+88 more: $22,078,580 · Other+88 moreGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $5,840,000 · EducationGordon-Conwell Theologica…ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4,671,346 · EducationASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINA…BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $4,450,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,650,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 · EducationSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSIT…+5 more: $710,000 · EducationNEMA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyNEMA FOUND…NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $2,025,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL C…International Friendship Ministries Inc: $500,000 · PhilanthropyInternatio…+3 more: $31,000 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,515,000 · ReligionRansomed Heart Ministries: $215,000 · ReligionCHRISTIAN UNION INC: $181,800 · ReligionRestoring the Soul Inc: $150,000 · Religion+4 more: $155,000 · ReligionVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $2,630,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $1,572,500 · Human ServicesMust Ministries Inc: $245,000 · Human ServicesClement Arts: $160,000 · Human ServicesMary Hall Freedom Village Inc: $160,000 · Human ServicesMagnolia Manor Inc: $140,000 · Human Services+6 more: $190,100 · Human ServicesYOUNG LIFE: $1,154,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $319,500 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN ADVISORS INC: $67,500 · Youth Development
Other$47,134,447Education$18,571,346Philanthropy$7,556,000Religion$4,216,800Housing & Shelter$2,695,000Human Services$2,467,600Youth Development$1,541,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $5,840,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetNEMA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4,671,346 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $4,450,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,515,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $2,630,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,650,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $1,572,500 over 8y, 28% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,154,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNAOMI'S VILLAGE INC: $637,100 over 7y, 9.4% of budgetInternational Friendship Ministries Inc: $500,000 over 8y, 65% of budgetGAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $500,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $421,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHouse of TIME Inc: $385,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetMICAH'S PROMISE INC: $361,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $319,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUS ON TRUTH INC: $297,000 over 7y, 88% of budgetWESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY: $250,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $245,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDSPRING INTERNATIONAL INC: $240,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $220,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRansomed Heart Ministries: $215,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN UNION INC: $181,800 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Wesley Heritage Foundation: $175,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetClement Arts: $160,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetMary Hall Freedom Village Inc: $160,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRestoring the Soul Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMagnolia Manor Inc: $140,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetToccoa Falls College Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWheaton College: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC: $90,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY INCORPORATED: $75,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetEYECARE TO THE NEEDY INC: $67,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetTEEN ADVISORS INC: $67,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetHEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC: $55,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetOne Need Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetANCIENT WAY FARM INC: $50,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMOTHER MARY MISSION INCORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetFields of Grace Ministries Inc: $46,800 over 1y, 18% of budgetPASTORAL INSTITUTE INC: $40,160 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMPACT MENS MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWesley Glen Ministries Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetValley Interfaith Promise Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetHope Heals Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 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 International Friendship Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds House of TIME Inc ↗
  • Who funds MICAH'S PROMISE INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Bradley-Turner Founda…The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…Lockwood Partners Fou…The Daniel P Amos Fam…The Cms Foundation IncThe Imlay Foundation …Elizabeth Fry and Dup…McClure Family Founda…Tuw Thomas H PittsThe Waterfall Foundat…
Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA54.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Soma Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Soma Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Soma Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Soma Foundation Inc 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 136 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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