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Soonae 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 $10k6 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $355k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $850k
- $250k+4 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUN MINISTRY | $3,600,000 |
| HOPE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL | $1,018,500 |
| EVANGELICAL BAPTIST CHURCH | $850,000 |
| RESCUING LIVES | $370,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $170,110 |
| GLOBESERVE INTERNATIONAL | $159,000 |
| AUSTIN DISASTER RELEIF NETWORK | $120,001 |
| HIGHLAND LAKES CRISIS NETWORK | $120,000 |
| EPIC INTERNATIONAL | $60,500 |
| SERVE SOURCE | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| FAMILIES SET FREE INC | $50,000 |
| THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $46,429 |
| BARNABAS CAPITAL INC | $45,000 |
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, $507k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 90% of Soonae Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 90% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k 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
- RLRESCUING LIVES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +8% · 59% of their budget
- GIGLOBESERVE INTERNATIONAL2× · 2023–2024 · $236k · revenue +59%
- TPTHE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC2× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TATHE APT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.1M
- UIUNTO INCone grant, 2019 · $130k
- BFBETHANY FELLOWSHIP INCone grant, 2018 · $91k
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.
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
Ministries
Training pastors in third world countries
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…
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
Hope and help international is a faith-based evangelical ministry, committed to serving impoverished people in south asia by meeting both spiritual and humanitarian needs.
Aid to poverty stricken areas in the u.s. and abroad.
Christian evangelism
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission of Hope Inc Mission of Hope Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Families Set Free 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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 58 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 RESCUING LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBESERVE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND LAKES CRISIS NETWORK DBA ARK OF HIGHLAND LAKES ↗
- Who funds Epic International Corporation ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES SET FREE INC ↗
- Who funds SERVE SOURCE ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND LAKES PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR THE HIGHLAND LAKES AREA ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Bolick Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Shell USA Company 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 Soonae 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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