· Private foundation
Sonedna Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $406k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE (MELA) | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $218,047 |
| WEST TELLAHATCHIE | $100,810 |
| INSTITUTE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES | $86,986 |
| Individual grant recipient | $31,756 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $11,000 |
| REZILIENT KIDZ | $3,853 |
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $3,584 |
| MS HEAD START ASSOCATION | $2,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $680k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NMNORTH MISSISSIPPI EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2.9M · revenue +35%
- IOINSTITUTE OF COMMUNITY SERVICESINC5× · 2017–2024 · $536k · revenue +48%
- ECELOHIM CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $112k · revenue +44% · 54% of their budget
Funded once
- LFLEADING FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue -28%
- PFPEARSON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +109%
- FLFOR LOVE OF CHILDRENone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +20%
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.
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.
Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)
The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and disseminates independent, high-quality research to improve learning for all children. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, LPI connects policymakers and stakeholders at the local, state,…
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
Pahara institute strengthens and sustains values-driven leaders who are transforming public education so that every child is prepared to lead a free and fulfilling life.
Education of students grades kindergarten thru 8th offering experiential learning, personalized instruction (10:1 student teacher ratio), team conflict resolution, high academic standards and multi age classes and mentorship.
ICRI provides high quality education and care to children and their families, responsive and emergent to each childs unique needs and strengths.
Lolo preschool provides a safe and nurturing environment where children can mature independently while being challenged and guided to explore the world around them.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
To ensure that every student can become a confident, independent, and lifelong reader by partnering with schools and communities to provide personalized, evidence-based literacy support and individualized instruction. the organization…
To provide educational and therapeutic services, at a professional level, for infants, toddlers and preschool children up to 12 years and their families through supporting the family unit and working with each child to develop his or her…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NORTH MISSISSIPPI EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF COMMUNITY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds ELOHIM CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEADING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PEARSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REZILIENTKIDZ ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sonedna Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sonedna Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Leading for Children: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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