Delaware · Private foundation
Sonder 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.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $43,100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $43,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sonder Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 2 | $83k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $67k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $80k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $103k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $90k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $105k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $118k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $115k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teach for America Inc | $125,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Black Public Media Inc | $95,200 | 8 | 2% |
| Montclair Child Development Center Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Montclair Free Public Library Foundation Inc | $68,500 | 7 | 13% |
| The Newark Museum Association | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Montclair Art Museum | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Montclair Scholarship Fund | $33,250 | 7 | 2% |
| Rutgers University Foundation | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gates Philanthropy Partners | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grounds for Sculpture Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sonder Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Investors Foundation Inc · Partners for Health Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Silver Family Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Montclair Foundation Inc · Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc · The Whitehill Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation · JOHN J & ROSE CALI FAMILY FOUNDATION co CALI FUTURES · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Falcon Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Sonder Foundation
- How much does Sonder Foundation give?
- Sonder Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $83,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sonder Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (27%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Sonder Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Teach for America Inc ($125k), Black Public Media Inc ($95k), Montclair Child Development Center Inc ($70k).
- Does Sonder Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sonder 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 Sonder Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Investors Foundation Inc, Partners for Health Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey.
- Where is Sonder Foundation based?
- Sonder Foundation is based in DE.
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