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Sonnie Schepps Robinson Foundation at a glance

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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.

$291k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$629kReligion$502kHealth$376kPhilanthropy$223kEducation$134kAnimals$102kInternational$85kYouth Development$34kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$60,000
EVELYN RUBENSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
VALLEY OF THE SUN JCC$20,000
POPPY'S RUN FOR LIFE$20,000
THE SHUL OF BELLAIRE$18,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
SAN JOSE CLINIC$10,000
RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC$10,000
AISHEL HOUSE$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
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KATE'S CLUB: $1k → 13%LEARNING ALLY: $500 → 11%KATE'S CLUB: $1k → 13%KATE'S CLUB: $1k → 13%KATE'S CLUB: $1k → 13%BEL INIZIO: $2k → 16%BEL INIZIO: $1k → 16%BEL INIZIO: $1k → 16%BEL INIZIO: $1k → 16%BEL INIZIO: $1k → 16%BEL INIZIO: $1k → 16%BEL INIZIO: $1k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $60k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $55k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $2k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $28k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $20k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $14k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $3k → 16%AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $3k → 16%AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $3k → 16%AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $3k → 16%AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $3k → 16%AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $3k → 16%AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $3k → 16%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
NJ
CO
MD
AZ
KS
NC
OK
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 56 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
21

Total granted

$2.1M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+38%

Still filing today

52%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 ServicesHealthEducationReligionAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $326k · revenue +15%
  • RP
    RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +15%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • EH
    ECHO HILL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +38%
  • AH
    AWAKENED HEART PROJECT
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -73%
  • TI
    THE IRVIN M SHLENKER SCHOOL OF CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Jewish Community Center Endowment Fund

The Jewish Community Center Endowment Fund was created to support the programs and operations of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston.

Religion
3
Rebuilding Together 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…

Housing & Shelter
4
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health
5
Houston Area Women's Center

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.

Human Services
6
Shield of Faith Missions

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.

Religion
7
Baylor Research Institute

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).

Health
8
Jewish Family Service

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…

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9
Houston Jewish Family Foundation

Supporting organization of jewish family service.

Human Services
10
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

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.

Health
11
Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc

JFCS provides mental health and human services to children/youth, families, seniors and veterans to help them achieve stability and improve well-being.

Human Services
12
Houston Area Parkinson Society

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 80 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston: $160,000 · OtherJewish Federation of Greater HoustonIndividual grant recipient: $155,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SHUL OF BELLAIRE CHABAD LUBAVITCH: $136,000 · OtherTHE SHUL OF BELLAIRE CHABAD LUBAVITCHAISHEL HOUSE INC: $95,000 · OtherAISHEL HOUSE INCALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONSEVEN ACRES JEWISH SR CARE: $79,350 · OtherSEVEN ACRES JEWISH SR CARESAN JOSE CLINIC: $72,500 · OtherSAN JOSE CLINICCONGREGATION SHMA KOLEINU: $72,500 · OtherCONGREGATION SHMA KOLEINUHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Other+41 more: $353,145 · Other+41 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $326,100 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERV…AVDA: $17,500 · Human ServicesTeen & Family Services: $13,250 · Human Services+5 more: $21,144 · Human Services+5 moreEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $150,000 · ReligionEvelyn Ru…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $42,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN…+2 more: $10,000 · ReligionPOPPYS RUN FOR LIFE: $60,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $43,000 · HealthDoctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc: $30,000 · HealthThe Council on Recovery: $24,000 · HealthCADE R ALPARD FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC DISEASE: $13,500 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthRESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC: $84,361 · AnimalsHOUSTON PETSET: $15,000 · Animals+1 more: $3,000 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $60,000 · EducationSCHOOL OF THE WOODS: $8,500 · EducationEckerd College: $7,500 · EducationTHE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL: $4,500 · EducationBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $28,800 · InternationalSUNFLOWER MISSION: $8,200 · InternationalCore House Ministries Inc: $2,500 · International
Other$1,343,695Human Services$377,994Religion$202,500Health$175,500Animals$102,361Education$80,500International$39,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $326,100 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $160,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC: $84,361 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPOPPYS RUN FOR LIFE: $60,000 over 3y, 77% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $43,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDoctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $28,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Council on Recovery: $24,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAVDA: $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON PETSET: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCADE R ALPARD FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC DISEASE: $13,500 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetTeen & Family Services: $13,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $12,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetZAP FITNESS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSUNFLOWER MISSION: $8,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBEL INIZIO INC: $7,944 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetEckerd College: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC: $7,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAWAKENED HEART PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCENTER FOR MEDICINE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST: $5,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetProject Orphans Inc dba Tulsa Girls Home: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKATE'S CLUB INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Marathon Foundation: $3,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEvelyn's Park Conservancy: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL GREAT PYRENEES RESCUE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCore House Ministries Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetREMIND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBourbon Hounds of Houston: $1,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…MD Anderson FoundationMechia FoundationHouston Jewish Commun…The Stanford & Joan A…The Brown Foundation …Fred and Mabel R Park…Strake FoundationJewish Federation of …Memorial Hermann Heal…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX39.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sonnie Schepps Robinson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sonnie Schepps Robinson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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How do I get to Sonnie Schepps Robinson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sonnie Schepps Robinson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 80 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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