· Private foundation
Souder Family 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
- $250k+3 grants · $925k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Evans Scholars Foundation | $350,000 |
| Red Arrow Camp Foundation | $300,000 |
| Millbrook School | $275,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach | $130,000 |
| Shedd Aquarium | $100,000 |
| Shirley Ryan Ability Lab - Institute's Scuba Progr | $75,000 |
| Salisbury School | $70,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach - music | $45,000 |
| Bethesda Hospital Foundation | $40,000 |
| McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital | $25,000 |
| Wayside House | $25,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County | $10,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church of Harbor Springs | $10,000 |
| Little Traverse Conservancy | $10,000 |
| Harbor Hall Foundation | $6,000 |
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 (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +86% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $549k 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
- SSSALISBURY SCHOOL INC2× · 2019–2024 · $370k · revenue +54%
- MSMILLBROOK SCHOOL2× · 2019–2024 · $305k · revenue +58%
- BHBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc2× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- SSSalisbury School - Jack Souder Scholarship fundone grant, 2019 · $500k
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION FIFTH INSTALLMENTone grant, 2023 · $350k
- MSMILLBROOK SCHOOL SECOND INSTALLMENT OF Aone grant, 2023 · $275k
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.
Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.
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.
The harbor school embraces the uniqueness of each young child and teaches students to celebrate this in themselves and in each other. our holistic approach nurtures confident, kind, and capable learners.
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
Seven hills engages hearts and minds, guiding students to cultivate their unique capacities and preparing each for a meaningful role in a rapidly changing world.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
Harbor cherishes childhood, cultivates wonder and inspires confident learners and leaders.
To inspire in each child the curiosity to learn, the self-confidence to lead and the compassion to serve.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Rumsey hall school is committed to the whole child approach to education and believes that teaching academics and teaching an attitude of mind are of equal importance. the school emphasizes effort as a criterion for success and is…
The mission of the holton-arms school is to cultivate the unique potential of young women through the "education not only of the mind, but of the soul and spirit".
To raise funds and to hold, manage and invest the funds raised and then distribute earnings from such funds to sustain and support the canterbury school of florida, inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. 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 52 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 100 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 SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROTECTION OF RIGHTS ALLIANCE ↗
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: James L Garard Jr Charitable Tr · Triford Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Cuyler P and Brenda G Medore Foundation · Ambrecht Family Foundation · Stearns Family Charitable Fund · Gaf Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Souder Family 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.
- Wayside House Inc — 1% 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.