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Sophidion 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUESTA COLLEGE NURSING PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON COMM COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| BATTLEFIELD TO BALLFIELDS | $12,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE | $10,000 |
| CASCADES RAPTOR CENTOR | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 7% of Sophidion 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, 91% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less 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 +50% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CCCAMBRIA COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +257%
- SWSTANISLAUS WILDLIFE CARE CENTER6× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +51%
- BTBATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS4× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CECambria Education Foundationone grant, 2017 · $10k · 29% of their budget
- CLCAMBRIA LIONS CLUBone grant, 2023 · $5k
- HIHEIFER INTERNATIONALone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The open arms pregnancy clinic is a christian ministry which offers life- affirming services to women and men facing unintended pregnancies and reproductive choices.
Maintain and operate a home for needy and homeless children in mexico. development of programs and maintenance of home and churches in baja california mexico. also womens shelter for battered woman in rosarito. childrens home for needy…
To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training
Provide temporary housing, clothing, counseling services, food and financial assistance for homeless individuals.
Wings of refuge is a long-term restoration home for female adults who have survived commercial sexual exploitation and/or trafficking. we provide a safe, christ centered atmosphere of healing and restoration for each participant.
Provide lodging, meals & safe haven for women
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
To minister the love of Jesus Christ to the Least, the Last, and the Lost of our Community through the provision of assistance in the areas of guidance, counseling, education, job training, shelter, food, clothing, health care and…
Ohana health pregnancy clinic is a compassionate christian ministry offering life-affirming services to women, men and their families who are faced with unplanned pregnancies. our mission is to provide supportive services that empower…
To provide meals and shelter to the working poor and homeless in North San Diego County.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Storks and the most unlike its peers is Cambria Education Foundation. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 44 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 CAMBRIA COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds STANISLAUS WILDLIFE CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIA POST NO 432 AMERICAN LEGION ↗
- Who funds CASCADES RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Blue Mountain Wildlife ↗
- Who funds Cambria Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY WOMENADE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PREGNANCY HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds Children of God DBA COG Global ↗
- Who funds Save the Storks ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FORT HOPE INC DBA GODS COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE THE BOWL ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sophidion 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.
- Blue Mountain Wildlife — 1% of income from government
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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