· Private foundation
Sonya Staff Foundation Inc
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 $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Health Global Access Project | $50,000 |
| California Council for Veterans Affairs - Constructing Whiteness | $50,000 |
| Ophelia Media Films Inc | $30,000 |
| Correctional Association of NY | $15,000 |
| Human Rights Defense Center | $10,000 |
| Center for Transformative ActionPrisoner Express | $10,000 |
| Women & Justice Project Tides Center | $10,000 |
| Artist Alliance Inc | $10,000 |
| Redwood Justice Fund - Prison Radio Project | $10,000 |
| NC Survivors Union Inc | $10,000 |
| Irondale Productions Inc | $5,000 |
| Worker's Circle | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- HRHuman Rights Defense Center Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $102k · revenue +44%
- CACORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue -19%
- OMOphelia Media Films Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $85k
Funded once
- CRCity Report Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +27%
- BLBrooklyn Law School - Survivors Justice Projectone grant, 2022 · $15k
- RARelease Aging Prisoners Project (Sponsor SEE)one grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…
To create original projects involving theater, cabaret and music, taking them from investigations into real life.
Raise awareness of social justice
Research and Education: Human Rights Research Center has a team of international contributors conducting research on various human rights topics. Their publications are used to educate the general public about critical rights issues.
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…
Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build an Internet library with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format including texts, audio, movies,…
ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Correctional Association of New York and the most unlike its peers is Nc Survivors Union Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 Human Rights Defense Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Redwood Justice Fund ↗
- Who funds The Freedom Archives ↗
- Who funds HEALTH GLOBAL ACCESS PROJECT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NYC BOOKS THROUGH BARS INC ↗
- Who funds City Report Inc ↗
- Who funds Irondale Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds NC Survivors Union Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
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: Tr Edna Wardlaw Charitable Tr Ua Magnolia Trust Company Trustee · Boston Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sonya Staff Foundation Inc 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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