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Sonance 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB CAPISTRANO VALLEY | $30,053 |
| PIER PRIDE FOUNDATION | $10,103 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| ELEPHANT COOPERATION | $9,086 |
| STALLION BOOSTER CLUB | $5,851 |
| PET PROJECT FOUNDATION | $5,521 |
| WELLNESS & PREVENTION CENTER | $5,521 |
| MISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,320 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $4,271 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE CAPISTRANO VALLEY | $4,063 |
| CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES | $4,021 |
| FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION | $3,350 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB WESTERN NV | $3,021 |
| COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE | $2,637 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Sonance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 51% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 19 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- ECELEPHANT COOPERATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +103% · 42% of their budget
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SOUTH COAST AREA4× · 2020–2023 · $536k · revenue +69% · 26% of their budget
- TSTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $74k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- RTROLLING THUNDER CHARITIES INCone grant, 2021 · $178k · revenue +10%
- ICIMMACULATE CONCEPTION CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $176k
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +267%
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.
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as healthy, caring, and responsible adults.
To transform lives and communities by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the lives of children in the foster care system aimed to prevent academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking,…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
We empower communities around the globe to protect sea turtles, corals, sharks, and the vital marine species and ecosystems they call home through hands-on conservation, education, and sustainable solutions. our team leads reef and beach…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The foundation seeks, secures and manages private support for california state university, long beach. (see schedule o)as the philanthropic foundation for the university, all donations in support of our students, faculty, programs and…
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.
California coast credit union (credit union) is a cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and…
The mission of the california children and families foundation is to promote, support, and improve the health and early development of children, from the prenatal stage through five years of age.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Aoki Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 132 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 ELEPHANT COOPERATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SOUTH COAST AREA ↗
- Who funds ROLLING THUNDER CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OYSTER BAY INC ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSING BOUNDARIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Bisbee Arizona ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds VICTORY FORMATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CAPISTRANO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAWTHORNE INC ↗
- Who funds PET PROJECT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Met Council Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TILLY'S LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SONANCE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds LAS PALMAS ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds IN-N-OUT BURGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds California Youth Services ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Sonance Cares Inc · Samueli Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Oneoc · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · McBETH FOUNDATION · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
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 Sonance 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.
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
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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