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Sonscope 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 $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $770k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COME AND SEE FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| PRAXIS INC | $100,000 |
| IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| GOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC | $100,000 |
| AXIS | $70,000 |
| SINAPIS GROUP | $45,000 |
| HOUSE UNIVERSITY MINISTRIES OF CHATTANOOGA | $26,000 |
| CARE FOR CHILDREN USA INC | $26,000 |
| CEO FORUM INC | $25,000 |
| THE BAYLOR SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SIGNAL MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| 1040 CONNECTIONS INC | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS | $20,000 |
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, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k 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
HOPE INTERNATIONAL6× · 2017–2024 · $915k · revenue +140%- PIPraxis Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $700k · revenue +170%
- CFCEO FORUM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $492k · revenue +258%
Funded once
- CCCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +12%
- FFFDM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +45%
- FOFRIENDS OF CHATTANOOGA PREP INCone grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue -69%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Christian leadership alliance exists to equip and unite leaders called to transform the world for christ.
Christian leaders from africa promotes christian theological training & education of local leaders in kenya and throughout africa. it invests in undergraduate, masters, and phd scholarships, faculty support for african professors and…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chalmers Center for Economic Development and the most unlike its peers is The Speech and Hearing Center. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 46 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 HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Praxis Inc ↗
- Who funds CEO FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AXIS ↗
- Who funds SINAPIS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Christian Alliance for Orphans ↗
- Who funds 1040 CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED ↗
- Who funds The House University Ministries ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORKMATTERS ↗
- Who funds FIRST THINGS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Development Assoc International ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Global Generosity Inc ↗
- Who funds FDM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHATTANOOGA PREP INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds IMPACT AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds African Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds OUTFITTERS FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds THE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER ↗
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: The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Hugh and Charlotte Maclellan Charitable Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · G II Charities · The Signatry Charitable Trust
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 Sonscope 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.
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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