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Sonance Cares Inc

To work together with our parnters to leave a lasting impact on the plant, people, animals, and communities.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$793k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$1.3MYouth Development$139kAnimals$102kFood & Nutrition$75kInternational$75kHealth$70kPhilanthropy$70kEducation$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $1,108,317, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,134,502 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,185 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
  • $250k+1 grant · $793k
$21,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$27k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELEPHANT COOPERATION$792,750
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$78,000
RX3 FOUNDATION$75,000
LIMB KIND FOUNDATION INC$25,000
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$25,000
RHINO 911$21,567
VETERAN HEALTH CHARITY (FITOPS FOUNDATION)$21,000
AOKI FOUNDATION$10,000
LAS PALMAS PTA$10,000
UNCONDITIONAL RESCUE$10,000
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
COMPASSIONATE ANIMAL RESCUE FOR MEDICAL AID$10,000
VIRTUAL WORLD SOCIETY$10,000
SHECKLER FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY23–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELEPHANT COOPERATION: $793k → 11%ELEPHANT COOPERATION: $415k → 11%RX3 FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%TILLY'S STARS & STRIPES: $25k → 10%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
WI
NY
NV
CA
KY
WV
AZ
TN
HI
GA
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 4 repeat orgs$619k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

$1.4M
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • EC
    ELEPHANT COOPERATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +63% · 33% of their budget
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $113k · revenue +35%
  • AF
    AOKI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • PP
    PAUL'S PANTRY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +13%
  • SC
    SADDLEBACK COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +79%
  • CR
    CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +3%
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
The Lulu Foundation
Philanthropy
2
The Lichtenstein Family Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
4
The Animal Welfare Foundation
—
5
Born Free Foundation
—
6
Lsf Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Serengeti Foundation
Environment
8
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
9
The Lef Foundation
—
10
Elephant Crew Foundation
Animals
11
Unlikely Collaborators Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Mark Felice Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Future Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Virtual World Society. 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

29 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELEPHANT COOPERATION: $1,207,750 · Human ServicesELEPHANT COOPERATIONEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION+1 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $113,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LIFT FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $25,000 · AnimalsRhino 911: $21,567 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $20,000 · AnimalsCOMPASSIONATE ANIMAL RESCUE FOR MEDICAL AID INC: $15,203 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsUNCONDITIONAL INC: $10,000 · AnimalsSADDLEBACK COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTILLY'S LIFE CENTER: $25,863 · EducationVIRTUAL WORLD SOCIETY: $10,000 · EducationOLIVE CREST: $25,000 · HealthLimb Kind Foundation: $25,000 · HealthJessie Rees Foundation: $25,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthPAUL'S PANTRY INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionCASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAOKI FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherTHE SHECKLER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $10,000 · OtherMATT LEINART FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherLAS PALMAS ELEMENTARY PTA: $10,000 · OtherVETERANS FUTURE FOUNDATION: $21,000 · OtherCHARLES A AND ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH FOUNDATION: $10,580 · OtherInternational FIRST Committee Associatio co Toohey Law Group: $10,000 · Other
Human Services$1,307,750Youth Development$128,000Animals$101,770Education$85,863Health$85,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Arts & Culture$75,000Other$116,580

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 budgetELEPHANT COOPERATION: $1,207,750 over 2y, 33% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $113,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL'S PANTRY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSADDLEBACK COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTILLY'S LIFE CENTER: $25,863 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLimb Kind Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRhino 911: $21,567 over 1y, 13% of budgetVETERANS FUTURE FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAOKI FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE ANIMAL RESCUE FOR MEDICAL AID INC: $15,203 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE LIFT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCHARLES A AND ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH FOUNDATION: $10,580 over 1y, 39% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHECKLER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetInternational FIRST Committee Associatio co Toohey Law Group: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNCONDITIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVIRTUAL WORLD SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetLAS PALMAS ELEMENTARY PTA: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $10,000 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.

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.

Sonance FoundationOrange County Communi…The Van Metre Family …Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
Sonance FoundationCA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonance Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 Sonance Cares Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sonance Cares 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 29 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 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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