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Sophiagrace Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$6.3MInternational$2.3MEnvironment$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$632kFood & Nutrition$505kHousing & Shelter$281kArts & Culture$238kPublic Benefit$153kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,760,962
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Various organization - attachment$2,760,962
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM UNITED: $5k → 8%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $10k → 7%FREEDOM UNITED: $10k → 8%SAFE HORIZON INC: $25k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $10k → 17%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $25k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $25k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $25k → 14%COURAGE CAMPAIGN INSTITUTE: $30k → 14%COURAGE CAMPAIGN INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $15k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $15k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $15k → 17%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $25k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $25k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $15k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
NC
DC
HI
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 64 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
22

Total granted

$11M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+20%

Still filing today

92%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitAnimalsOther

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

  • O
    OneSky
    3× · 2018–2020 · $685k · revenue +26%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $565k · revenue ×63
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    3× · 2018–2020 · $260k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • V
    Various
    one grant, 2021 · $2.7M
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +20%
  • TM
    THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -89%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Dance Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Animal Rescue and ShelterLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr13%22%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/79
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,899

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.

04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
58/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Various organization - attachment — $6,157,494 · OtherVarious organization - attachmentVarious — $2,730,364 · OtherVariousMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT — $390,000 · Other+48 more — $1,281,900 · Other+48 moreOneSky — $685,380 · InternationalOneSkyOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $380,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA I…Mercy Corps — $260,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsDIRECT RELIEF — $200,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $135,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CO…PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC — $120,000 · InternationalPLOUGHSHARES FU…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $90,000 · International+4 more — $119,000 · International+4 moreSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $400,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $180,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $110,000 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPLE INC — $44,000 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EARTH — $42,500 · EnvironmentThe Pachamama Alliance — $36,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC — $35,000 · Environment+5 more — $105,500 · EnvironmentLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $565,267 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $67,000 · Public Safety & DisasterST JOSEPH CENTER — $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN — $75,000 · Human ServicesCOURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE C3 — $55,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesFreedom United — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $150,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $4,500 · Food & NutritionTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $200,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $30,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$10,559,758International$1,989,380Environment$953,000Public Safety & Disaster$632,267Human Services$315,000Food & Nutrition$254,500Philanthropy$236,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOneSky — $685,380 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $565,267 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $380,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMercy Corps — $260,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $180,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $175,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $67,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetOvertone Industries — $66,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE C3 — $55,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC — $44,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH — $42,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance — $36,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConservative Energy Network — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTAND — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE MEDIA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDU FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN AMERICA — $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Tides FoundationImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…The Rose Foundation f…United States Energy …California Community …The California Endowm…Rockefeller Philanthr…Boston Foundation IncThe US Charitable Gif…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal Fund
Tides FoundationCA29.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · United States Energy Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Endowment · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Sophiagrace 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery — 1% of income from government
  • Curry College — 0% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Sophiagrace Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sophiagrace 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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