California · Private foundation
Sonance 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.
- $406k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,021
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $136,831
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $685k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Sonance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $406k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $132k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $172k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $1.9M | 70% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $1.5M | 87% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $77k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elephant Cooperation | $1,167,518 | 6 | 42% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the South Coast Area | $535,831 | 4 | 26% |
| Rolling Thunder Charities Inc | $178,388 | 1 | n/a |
| Immaculate Conception Center Inc | $176,003 | 1 | n/a |
| Sonance Cares Inc | $121,042 | 3 | 2% |
| Crossing Boundaries Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Hoag Hospital Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc | $89,404 | 1 | 3% |
| The Surfrider Foundation | $85,732 | 6 | 0% |
| Family Assistance Ministries | $59,412 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($512k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sonance Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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How do I get to Sonance Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Sonance Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About Sonance Foundation
- How much does Sonance Foundation give?
- Sonance Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $405,768 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sonance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (32%), Youth Development (22%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Sonance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Elephant Cooperation ($1.2M), Boys and Girls Club of the South Coast Area ($536k), Rolling Thunder Charities Inc ($178k).
- Does Sonance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sonance Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sonance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation, Edwards Lifesciences Foundation.
- Where is Sonance Foundation based?
- Sonance Foundation is based in CA.
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