· Private foundation
Sonsma Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALEM UTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CREAN LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $40,500 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH | $24,000 |
| CHARITY ON WHEELS | $12,155 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL OC | $10,000 |
| HELPING HANDS MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| CHRIST THE CENTER MINISTRIES | $3,180 |
| FAMILIES SEE FREE | $2,472 |
| OLIVE CREST | $2,000 |
| FAMILY BUILDING FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
- COCharity On Wheels Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +553% · 37% of their budget
- OCOLIVE CREST7× · 2018–2024 · $211k · revenue +126%
- CMCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC5× · 2019–2023 · $142k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOUND MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $25k
HOPE INTERNATIONALone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%- NNNCCF NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Family connections christian adoptions exists to assist the waiting children of the world into permanent, loving families. it is our belief that god's love is best expressed in the family. the work of fcca is a living expression of our…
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
His university provides graduate and undergraduate degree and diploma education and training for his family ministry specialists who desire to pursue careers in counseling and ministry.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
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Our father's children, inc (ofc) is an organziation dedicated to abused and neglected children. the ministry's vision is to spread the gospel of christ to children as well as teach them good life skills, good character traits, and provide…
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Religious organization devoted to strengthening members' personal faith.
To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Charity On Wheels Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 59 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 Charity On Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Rooted Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE SHEEPFOLD INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER PROVIDERS OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds His Little Feet ↗
- Who funds ACRES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds ACQUISTAPACE FOUNDATION INC ACQUISTAPACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER KIDS ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES SET FREE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYBUILDING FOUNDATION ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Giving University · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Sonsma Family 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.