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Someland Foundation

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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$29MEducation$15MPublic Benefit$9.5MHealth$6.8MArts & Culture$6.8MFood & Nutrition$4.8MEnvironment$4.4MScience & Tech$3.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.5M
$1,030,928
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ACLU FOUNDATION$2,000,000
DEMOCRACY FRONTLINES FUNDING COLLABORATIVE$1,030,928
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$500,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SF NEW DEAL: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
NY
MA
CA
NE
VA
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$54M · 27 repeat orgs$32M to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
38

Total granted

$54M
$32M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+27%

Still filing today

85%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsEnvironmentPublic BenefitArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • NR
    NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $8.0M · revenue +61% · 44% of their budget
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $8.0M · revenue +53%
  • DC
    DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $5.1M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SS
    SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $6.3M · revenue -7% · 35% of their budget
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - STUDENT NUTRITION SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · $4.0M
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPARK
    one grant, 2022 · $3.3M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc

The american civil liberties union foundation of northern california (aclu nc foundation) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc foundation, a california…

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4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
7
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
10
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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11
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
12
Institute for Americas Future Inc

Iaf's purpose is to conduct research and publicize findings concerning citizen's attitudes about economic options confronting america. iaf is devoted to fostering a robust and democratic debate about ideas that will shape our country's…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Tf and the most unlike its peers is Land Light Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%18%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,517

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 67 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
26/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - STUDENT NUTRITION SERVICES — $4,000,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - STUDE…THE ACLU FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 · OtherTHE ACLU FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPARK — $3,308,824 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPARKTHE LIBRA FOUNDATION (DEMOCRACY FRONTLINES FUND) — $3,000,000 · OtherTHE LIBRA FOUNDATION (DEMOCRACY FRONTLINES FU…DEMOCRACY FRONTLINES FUNDING COLLABORATIVE — $2,061,856 · OtherDEMOCRACY FRONTLINES FUNDING COLLABORATIVEAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc — $2,000,000 · OtherAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Texas IncDATA & SOCIETY — $1,500,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,370,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,500,000 · Other+29 more — $11,564,889 · Other+29 moreNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $8,000,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOU…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $8,000,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIV…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $2,000,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES U…COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $1,000,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $700,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $500,000 · Civil RightsSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $6,292,476 · EducationSPARK SF PUBLIC SCH…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $4,650,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIF…826 Valencia — $1,000,073 · Education826 ValenciaWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $1,000,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN C…PROJECT TF — $600,000 · EducationGIRLTREK INCORPORATED — $500,000 · Education+4 more — $832,545 · Education+4 moreDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $5,100,000 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER …THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $1,750,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK …509 CULTURAL CENTER — $1,550,000 · Arts & Culture509 CULTURA…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $2,011,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $2,000,000 · EnvironmentSolutions Project Inc — $400,000 · EnvironmentUndauntedK12 — $300,000 · EnvironmentDATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,500,000 · Public BenefitCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC — $300,000 · Public BenefitRepresentUs Education Fund — $250,000 · Public BenefitInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,000,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS — $500,000 · InternationalADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC — $100,000 · International
Other$34,305,569Civil Rights$20,200,000Education$14,875,094Arts & Culture$8,400,000Environment$4,711,000Public Benefit$2,050,000International$1,600,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $8,000,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $8,000,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $6,292,476 over 1y, 35% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $5,100,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $4,650,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $2,011,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $2,000,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc — $2,000,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $1,750,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budget509 CULTURAL CENTER — $1,550,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetDATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,500,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,370,000 over 2y, 12% of budget826 Valencia — $1,000,073 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $1,000,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDev Color — $1,000,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $750,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMISSION GRADUATES — $725,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $700,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPROJECT TF — $600,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $522,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLTREK INCORPORATED — $500,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOLARMATCH INC — $450,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetLAND LIGHT FOUNDATION — $445,000 over 4y, 77% of budgetSolutions Project Inc — $400,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUndauntedK12 — $300,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC — $300,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund — $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNUEVA SCHOOL — $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetcity3 — $150,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWORKMONEY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWalk San Francisco Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSF New Deal — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $32,545 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIM BRAUCH MEMORIAL SKATE PARK FUND — $9,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…New Venture FundThe David and Lucile …The San Francisco Fou…The William & Flora H…Tides FoundationCrankstart FoundationMitchell Kapor Founda…The James Irvine Foun…Salesforce Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA30.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · New Venture Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Tides Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Mitchell Kapor Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Salesforce 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 Someland Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Someland Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Someland 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

    Source object · view filing

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