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Sorenson Impact 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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+8 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Realize Impact | $1,000,000 |
| University of Utah | $638,000 |
| Lafayettte Square Foundation | $375,000 |
| Ownership Works Inc | $250,000 |
| ImpactAlpha | $250,000 |
| Rutgers University | $250,000 |
| The Aspen Institute | $250,000 |
| B Lab Company | $250,000 |
| New Venture Fund | $175,000 |
| New Venture Fund | $75,000 |
| Crane Institute of Sustainability | $50,000 |
| Impact Investing Institute | $40,000 |
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
- VIVILCAP INC2× · 2020–2021 · $750k · revenue +70%
- BLB LAB COMPANY3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +20%
- AIAERIS INSIGHT INC2× · 2020–2021 · $450k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- WRWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -54%
- FOFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +116%
- TFTRANSFORM FINANCE INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -44% · 25% of their budget
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.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…
The mission of this corporation is to be the preeminent partner for impact investing and charitable giving, helping us all achieve our greatest impact.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transform Finance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Utah Chamber Artists. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 46 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 Realize Impact ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds VILCAP INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds B LAB COMPANY ↗
- Who funds AERIS INSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Lafayette Square Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN STUDENTS OF COOPERATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORM FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds OK Foundation ↗
- Who funds OWNERSHIP WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Social Finance Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- Who funds First Step Staffing Inc ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AGEN ↗
- Who funds ACCESS VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds TONIIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Crane Institute of Sustainability Inc ↗
- Who funds Utah Chamber Artists ↗
- Who funds American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds MISSION INVESTORS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
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: The Ford Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Prudential Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Fb Heron Foundation · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Omidyar Network Fund Inc
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 Sorenson Impact 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.
- Social Finance Inc — 12% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% 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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