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Sonnie Schepps Robinson 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $60,000 |
| EVELYN RUBENSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| POPPY'S RUN FOR LIFE | $20,000 |
| VALLEY OF THE SUN JCC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| THE SHUL OF BELLAIRE | $18,000 |
| RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC | $10,000 |
| AISHEL HOUSE | $10,000 |
| SAN JOSE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SR CARE | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $7,500 |
| THE COUNCIL ON RECOVERY | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $5,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $371k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE8× · 2017–2024 · $326k · revenue +15%
- RPRESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +15%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- TITHE IRVIN M SHLENKER SCHOOL OF CONGREGATION BETH ISRAELone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AHAWAKENED HEART PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -73%
- EHECHO HILL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +38%
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Jewish Community Center Endowment Fund was created to support the programs and operations of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
The Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) works to end domestic and sexual violence and supports all in building safe and healthy lives through advocacy, counseling, education, shelter, and support services.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
Supporting organization of jewish family service.
A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.
JFCS provides mental health and human services to children/youth, families, seniors and veterans to help them achieve stability and improve well-being.
The mission of the Houston Area Parkinson Society is to use a whole-human approach to community building, which reduces the fear and isolation associated with a Parkinson's diagnosis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bourbon Hounds of Houston. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 80 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
- Who funds RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds POPPYS RUN FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Doctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
- Who funds AVDA ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON PETSET ↗
- Who funds CADE R ALPARD FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC DISEASE ↗
- Who funds Teen & Family Services ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds ZAP FITNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF THE WOODS ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Strake Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Houston · Memorial Hermann Health System
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 Sonnie Schepps Robinson 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.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% 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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