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Sostento Inc

To meet the urgent needs of frontline health workers responding to public health emergencies and serving poor and marginalized patients.

$148k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Health$4.1MHuman Services$120kReligion$20kHousing & Shelter$18k
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $91,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $147,956 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,956 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$126k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mountain Hope Good Shepherd$6,500
St Vincent de Paul Community Pharmacy$6,500
Centre Volunteers in Medicine$6,500
Hope Clinic and Care Center Inc$6,500
Milan Puskar Health Right$6,500
Highlands Health Laurel Highlands Free & Charitab$6,500
Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc$6,500
Bradley Free Clinic of Roanoke Valley$6,500
Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri$6,500
People's Health Clinic Inc$6,500
Community Health-In-Partnership Services$6,500
DuPage Health CoalitionAccess DuPage$6,500
St John Bosco Clinic$6,500
Ibn Sina Foundation Inc$6,500
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 (FY21–23, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Health Alliance for the Uninsured: $50k → 16%Hope Clinic and Care Center Inc: $30k → 6%District Council of Madison Inc: $20k → 10%Helping Hands of Middle and West Tennessee: $70k → 15%MedAssist of Meklenburg: $20k → 10%LifeTools Community Development Corporation: $25k → 10%Community Helping Place Inc: $20k → 12%St Vincent de Paul Community Pharmacy: $40k → 16%Worry Free Community: $20k → 23%Hope Clinic and Care Center Inc: $7k → 6%Helping Hands of Middle and West Tennessee: $10k → 15%St Vincent de Paul Community Pharmacy: $7k → 16%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

IL
WI
OH
PA
UT
MO
WV
VA
KS
TN
NC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 16 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
81

Total granted

$1.2M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+21%

Still filing today

94%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MC
    MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $147k · revenue +62%
  • TG
    THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $133k · revenue +23%
  • BF
    BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $77k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -32%
  • Health Connections Incorporated
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -5%
  • Community Health NFP
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue -28%
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
Houston County Volunteer Medical Clinic Inc

The organization works to provide free primary medical care to working, lower-income, uninsured citizens in Houston County, GA.

Health
2
Christ Clinic

Providing reliable, accessible, high quality medical services to the most vunerable people in our community.

Health
3
Community Health Care Clinic

Provide quality health care to mclean county's medically underserved residents through the operation of a free medical clinic.

Health
4
Macon Volunteer Clinic Inc

Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC)provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as medication assistance, to uninsured, working adult residents of Middle Georgia. All patients live at or below 200% of federal poverty level.

Health
5
Harvest Free Medical Clinic

Provide free medical care for those without resources to pay in the Charleston Tricounty area.

Health
6
Smithville Community Clinic

Free and charitable meadical clinic that provides basic medical services, behavioral health assessments/counseling, well women's check ups, and dental services. opportunities provided for community volunteers and medical professionals.

Health
7
Jonesboro Church Health Center Inc

Our purpose is to address health disparities reduce barriers to care by offering essential medical services to those most in need. Our vision is that every person in our community has access to healthcare regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
8
Community Care Clinic Inc

To provide health care to low-income persons in the community who do not have health insurance through disease prevention, continuity of care, and active follow-up, we can prmote the health and well-being of the community.

Health
9
Good Samaritan Free Clinic Inc

We provide medical services to uninsured and underinsured in our community. This year our mission included assisting the Rescue Mission with healthcare for their residents as well as seeing patients at our clinic.

Health
10
Fayette Care Clinic Inc

To provide a medical home in Fayette County for lower-income, uninsured adults and caring for them always with Compassion and Respect for everyone.

Health
11
Shared Christian Ministries

Our mission is to provide quality comprehensive free or low cost medical care for the uninsured, whatever their race or religion. The Clinic's services are available to any uninsured adult, 18 years old or older.

Health
12
Christian Health Center of Howard County

The mission of the christian health clinic of howard county is to provide medical services, including dentistry and pharmacy, to the people of the county who cannot obtain medical care because of inability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Health Center; the most unlike its peers is Salaam Cleveland. 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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/87
Grantees still filing
54/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION: $146,500 · HealthMOBILE CARE FOUNDATIONTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $133,000 · HealthIBN SINA FOUNDATION INC: $126,500 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $120,000 · HealthHealth Connections Incorporated: $120,000 · HealthCommunity Health NFP: $110,000 · HealthCENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $91,500 · Health+46 more: $1,847,025 · Health+46 moreGEORGIA CHARITABLE CARE NETWORK INC: $100,000 · OtherGEORGIA CHARITABLE CARE…BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $76,500 · OtherBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF …GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $50,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIE…ANGELS OF GRACE COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER INC: $50,000 · OtherANGELS OF GRACE COMMUNI…CHAPN II: $45,000 · OtherSocial Welfare Board of the County of Buchanan: $40,000 · OtherST CLAIR COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $40,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $40,000 · OtherBPSOS-ATLANTA: $30,000 · OtherMdicos Mission Fund: $30,000 · OtherUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES INC: $30,000 · OtherMUSLIM COMMUNITY AND HEALTH: $30,000 · OtherFINDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · OtherTHE HEALING WORD COUNSELING CENTER: $35,000 · OtherGET UP PROJECT: $30,000 · Other+14 more: $220,700 · Other+14 moreHelping Hands of Middle & West Tennessee: $80,000 · Human ServicesHealth Alliance for the Uninsured: $50,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY OF CINCINNATI: $46,500 · Human ServicesHOPE CLINIC AND CARE CENTER INC: $36,500 · Human ServicesLIFE TOOLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,250 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HELPING PLACE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWORRY FREE COMMUNITY: $20,000 · Human ServicesMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $20,000 · Human ServicesDISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF FREE & CHARITABLE CLINICS: $100,000 · EducationVIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $70,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $20,000 · EducationInstitute for the Advancement of Minority Health: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPathways - Va Inc: $30,000 · ReligionCITY ON A HILL INC: $20,000 · ReligionJACKSON FREE CLINIC: $45,266 · Housing & Shelter
Health$2,694,525Other$887,200Human Services$318,250Education$190,000Philanthropy$50,000Religion$50,000Housing & Shelter$45,266

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 budgetMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION: $146,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $133,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetIBN SINA FOUNDATION INC: $126,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $120,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHealth Connections Incorporated: $120,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCommunity Health NFP: $110,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF FREE & CHARITABLE CLINICS: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetGEORGIA CHARITABLE CARE NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $91,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $80,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetHelping Hands of Middle & West Tennessee: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $76,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHIGHLANDS HEALTH: $76,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetETHNE HEALTH INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetVIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTENNESSEE CHARITABLE CARE NETWORK: $70,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLone Star Assoc Charitable Clinics: $70,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLower Rio Grande Valley Community Health Management: $70,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOPE GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC INC: $66,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetWisconsin Association of Free & Charitab: $63,879 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMISSION TRAVIS MERCY: $60,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetOPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC: $60,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic: $56,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetIMMUNIZE KANSAS COALITION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHealth Alliance for the Uninsured: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetInstitute for the Advancement of Minority Health: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDUPAGE HEALTH COALITION: $46,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY OF CINCINNATI: $46,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT INC: $46,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJACKSON FREE CLINIC: $45,266 over 1y, 17% of budgetHEALING BRIDGE CLINIC INC: $45,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHARIS HEALTH CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFINDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetLIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH: $40,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetST CLAIR COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFriends in Need Health Center Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SHELBYVILLE AND BEDFORD COUNTY: $40,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFREDERICKSBURG AREA REGIONAL HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE CLINIC AND CARE CENTER INC: $36,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOzanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $36,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HEALING WORD COUNSELING CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Clinic Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTH CARE NETWORK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetKARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

Americares Foundation…Direct ReliefNational Association …Heart to Heart Intern…Tennessee Charitable …Georgia Charitable Ca…MAP International IncSmile 180 FoundationVirginia Association …Delta Dental of Virgi…Southern Health Plan …The Roots and Wings F…
Americares Foundation IncCT97.2× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Americares Foundation Inc · Direct Relief · National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · Heart to Heart International Inc · Tennessee Charitable Care Network · Georgia Charitable Care Network Inc · MAP International Inc · Smile 180 Foundation · Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · Delta Dental of Virginia Foundation · Southern Health Plan Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation 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 Sostento Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sostento Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Sostento Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sostento Inc 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 98 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $46k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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