· Private foundation
Soter Kay Foundation F/K/A Sarah Ross Soter 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $249k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $967k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $200,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS LYRIC THEATRE | $100,000 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE CROSSROADS CLUB INC | $91,500 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS | $75,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| THE TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY | $50,000 |
| MID-OHIO FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO | $50,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $36,500 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF HARBOR SPRINGS | $30,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT | $25,000 |
| THE HANLEY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 11 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $455k 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
- ANANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC4× · 2017–2023 · $509k · revenue +85%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2017–2022 · $375k · revenue +33%
- TOTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- RAROSS ART MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $68k
- AVAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +8%
- SHSTARR HOUSE INCone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Palm Health Foundation invests in bold, community-led solutions that improve health and well-being in Palm Beach County. (Continued on Schedule O)Established in 2001 from the sale of Good Samaritan and St. Mary's hospitals, the Foundation…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Enhance the patient and family experience at miami valley hospital by raising community support for cutting-edge programs and services which help build healthy communities.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harmony Project. 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 46 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 53 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 COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLINGTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS LYRIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RYAN LICHT SANG BIPOLAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HANLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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 Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Reynolds Family Foundation · Columbus Foundation · The Nancy Brinker Charitable Foundation · Mestal Foundation · Mark E Bryant Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Soter Kay Foundation F/K/A Sarah Ross Soter 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Armory Art Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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.