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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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.6MCommunity Improvement$4.2MPhilanthropy$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.4MHuman Services$700kPublic Benefit$625kInternational$343kSocial Science$340kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.3M
$250,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$140M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Realize Impact$1,000,000
University of Utah$638,000
Lafayettte Square Foundation$375,000
Ownership Works Inc$250,000
The Aspen Institute$250,000
ImpactAlpha$250,000
Rutgers University$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Social Finance Inc: $125k → 16%Guadalupe Center: $25k → 10%American Indian Services: $100k → 8%Realize Impact: $1.0M → 10%Social Finance Inc: $125k → 16%Womens Refugee Commission: $250k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
KY
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 14 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
23

Total granted

$11M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+41%

Still filing today

79%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEmploymentEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VI
    VILCAP INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $750k · revenue +70%
  • BL
    B LAB COMPANY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +20%
  • AI
    AERIS INSIGHT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $450k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CO
    COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AGENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +41%
  • WR
    WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -54%
  • TF
    TRANSFORM FINANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -44% · 25% of their budget
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Accion International

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…

International
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

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…

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4
Enterprise Community Investment Inc

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.…

Housing & Shelter
5
Impactassetsinc

The mission of this corporation is to be the preeminent partner for impact investing and charitable giving, helping us all achieve our greatest impact.

Philanthropy
6
Activate Global Inc

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…

Environment
7
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

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…

Community Improvement
10
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
11
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transform Finance Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $6,860,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHVILCAP INC: $750,000 · OtherVILCAP INCVillage Capital: $500,000 · Other+21 more: $2,815,975 · Other+21 moreAERIS INSIGHT INC: $450,000 · Community ImprovementAERIS INSIG…Lafayette Square Foundation Inc: $375,000 · Community ImprovementLafayette S…COMMON FUTURE: $250,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON FUTU…ACCESS VENTURES INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementACCESS VENT…OWNERSHIP WORKS INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementOWNERSHIP W…TRANSFORM FINANCE INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementTRANSFORM F…+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementRealize Impact: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesRealize Im…WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S RE…Social Finance Inc: $250,000 · Human ServicesSocial Fin…American Indian Services: $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican I…+1 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK INC: $660,000 · PhilanthropyOK Foundation: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTONIIC INSTITUTE: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $200,000 · PhilanthropyMISSION INVESTORS EXCHANGE INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyNEW VENTURE FUND: $850,000 · EnvironmentThe Crane Institute of Sustainability Inc: $150,000 · EnvironmentB LAB COMPANY: $500,000 · Public BenefitWORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE: $250,000 · EmploymentFirst Step Staffing Inc: $250,000 · Employment
Other$10,926,775Community Improvement$1,835,000Human Services$1,625,000Philanthropy$1,380,000Environment$1,000,000Public Benefit$500,000Employment$500,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRealize Impact: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $850,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVILCAP INC: $750,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetGLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK INC: $660,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetB LAB COMPANY: $500,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAERIS INSIGHT INC: $450,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetLafayette Square Foundation Inc: $375,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCOMMON FUTURE: $250,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AGEN: $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN STUDENTS OF COOPERATION: $250,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetACCESS VENTURES INC: $250,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOWNERSHIP WORKS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTRANSFORM FINANCE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetOK Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFirst Step Staffing Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSocial Finance Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTONIIC INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Crane Institute of Sustainability Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetUtah Chamber Artists: $100,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE: $92,620 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMISSION INVESTORS EXCHANGE INC: $70,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEnvision Utah: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ford FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationThe Prudential Founda…ImpactassetsincThe Rockefeller Found…The Fb Heron Foundati…The Nathan Cummings F…Amalgamated Charitabl…Surdna Foundation IncThe Robert Wood Johns…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Omidyar Network Fund …
The Ford FoundationNY24.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sorenson Impact Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sorenson Impact Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Sorenson Impact Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sorenson Impact 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home