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Soroptimist International of the Americas Inc
Soroptimist is a global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $182,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $509,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $326,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOROPTIMIST DESERT COAST REGION | $23,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST NORTHWESTERN REGION | $20,500 |
| SOROPTIMIST SIERRA PACIFIC REGION | $20,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST CAMINO REAL REGION | $17,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST SIERRA NEVADA REGION | $14,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST GOLDEN WEST REGION | $14,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST FOUNDER REGION | $14,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST SOUTH CENTRAL REGION | $11,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST MIDWESTERN REGION | $11,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST PEAKS TO PLAINS REGION | $11,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST NORTH ATLANTIC REGION | $11,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST CENTRAL EAST COAST REGION | $8,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST SOUTHERN REGION | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $205k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARDS · LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARDS AND SOROPTIMIST CLUB GRANTS
Stated purpose: LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARDS · LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARDS AND SOROPTIMIST CLUB GRANTS
Stated purpose: LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARDS
Stated purpose: LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARDS AND SOROPTIMIST CLUB GRANTS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Soroptimist International of the Americas Inc’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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- DCDesert Coast Region Soroptimist International of the Americas4× · 2022–2025 · $88k · revenue +51% · 40% of their budget
- SISOROPTIMIST INTL SIERRA PACIFIC REGION4× · 2022–2025 · $69k · revenue +103% · 32% of their budget
- SISOROPTIMIST INTL OF THE AMERICAS INC- CAMINO REAL REGION4× · 2022–2025 · $63k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SISOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE AMERICAS INCone grant, 2017 · $8k
- SNSOROPTIMIST NORTH CENTRAL REGIONone grant, 2022 · $8k
- SISOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE AMERICAS INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -52%
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.
Improve the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment.
Soroptimist is a global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment.
To Improve Lives of Women and Girls
A global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment..
Soroptimist is a global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment.
A global volunteer organization that improves the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment.
Our primary purpose is to support women and girls and to empower themselves financially through educational opportunities. We also provide grants to other community organizations.
To improve the lives of women and girls
A global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment.
The organization was formed for its members who are business and professional women to provide volunteer services to their communities. these members work toward improving the lives of women and girls through community based and…
Soroptimist is a global volunteer organization that provide women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment.
A Global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the educations and training they need to achieve economic empowerment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soroptimist Intl of the Americas Inc- Camino Real Region and the most unlike its peers is Desert Coast Region Soroptimist International of the Americas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 Desert Coast Region Soroptimist International of the Americas ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTL SIERRA PACIFIC REGION ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTL OF THE AMERICAS INC- CAMINO REAL REGION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDER REGION SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL GOLDEN WEST REGION ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTL OF THE AMERICAS SIERRA NEVADA REGION ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE AMERICA NORTH ATLANTIC REGION ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF BORREGO SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds Soroptimist International of Rio Vista ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF DAVIS ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF CORONA ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Soroptimist International of the Americas Inc 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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