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Sonni Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$313kHealth$53kReligion$26kInternational$8kArts & Culture$7kCivil Rights$500Public Benefit$61Other$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEMS$25,000
Individual grant recipient$4,400
Individual grant recipient$4,400
Individual grant recipient$4,400
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,600
CHINMAYA MISSION OF ORLANDO$2,503
KALAAKUNCHA INC$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
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 (FY18–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT AIM FOR SEVA INC: $500 → 12%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEMS: $25k → 17%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT AIM FOR SEVA INC: $500 → 12%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

NY
PA
CA
VA
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$276k · 33 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
28

Total granted

$276k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
0%

Still filing today

9%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2018–2022 · $16k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2018–2022 · $16k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2020–2024 · $16k

Funded once

  • AF
    AdventHealth Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +186%
  • AP
    AKSHAYA PATRA
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • AP
    AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +151%
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
Arihanta Institute

Arihanta academys mission is to build a world-class online institution for deeper learning of the jain tradition, its principles, and how these principles apply to daily life for the benefit and well-being of individuals and society in…

Education
2
Chinmaya Mission Chicago

Provide religious and spiritual guidance to the community and support charitable projects in US and India

Religion
3
Akanksha Education Fund Inc

To support educational opportunities for underserved children in india, and raising support for and awareness of such activities in the united states.

International
4
Vellore Christian Medical College Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission is to provide a focus for excellence and integrity at christian medical college in vellore india, through participation in and continuing support of cmc's drive to maintain excellence.

International
5
Iisc Foundation

The specific purpose, mission, and activity of the corporation is to secure funding for promoting education, research, technology development, startup incubation, acceleration, and translational research at the indian institute of science…

Education
6
American Association of Physicians From India Charitable Foundation

Aapi is the nonprofit division of the american physicians of indian origin, representing over 40,000 practicing physicians and over 10,000 medical students and residents. the foundation is committed to serve the poorest of the poor in…

Health
7
Chinmaya Mission Austin

Our mission is to provide to individuals, from any background, the wisdome of vedanta and practical means for spiritual growth and happiness, enabling them to become positive contributors to society

Religion
8
The American India Foundation

The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Sankara Eye Foundation Usa

To work towards eradicating curable blindness all over india. our key program is vision 20/20 - with the goal of performing 500,000 free surgeries per year throughout india. we have been primarily partnering with sankara eye foundation in…

Health
10
India Foundation

Healthcare and education for the needy

Human Services
11
International Hindu University Inc

Our mission as per the by-laws : a) the board adopts a strategic plan that includes goals which will lead to acquiring accreditation recognized by us department of education and maintaining it. this includes getting an accreditation from…

Religion
12
National Ayurvedic Medical Association

The National Ayurvedic Medical Association represents the Ayurvedic profession in the United States of America. Our mission is to preserve, protect, promote and advance the consciousness-based philosophy, knowledge, science and practice of…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is All India Movement for Seva Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Commemorative Air Force. 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

11 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. 11 of the 74 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherCHINMAYA MISSION ORLANDO: $14,758 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,600 · Other+56 more: $218,671 · Other+56 moreMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $165 · HealthAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $6,500 · Food & NutritionKARNATAKA STATE MEDICAL & DENTAL ALUMNI ASSOC OF AMERICA: $5,000 · EducationNavika Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $250 · Arts & CultureRISE FOUNDATION: $500 · Civil Rights
Other$345,429Human Services$26,000Health$25,165Food & Nutrition$6,500Education$5,000Arts & Culture$1,250Civil Rights$500

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 budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINMAYA MISSION ORLANDO: $14,758 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKARNATAKA STATE MEDICAL & DENTAL ALUMNI ASSOC OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRISE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $165 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHINMAYA MISSION ORLANDO ↗
  • Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
  • Who funds Chinmaya Mission Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds KARNATAKA STATE MEDICAL & DENTAL ALUMNI ASSOC OF AMERICA ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 74 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-PF 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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