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Soul Soup 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.

$98k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
82%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 11
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$569k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 82% of the organizations Soul Soup Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$92k57%
FY202311$730k82%
FY20228$325kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$475kReligion$269kCommunity Improvement$105kCrime & Legal$34kScience & Tech$24kHealth$18kPhilanthropy$8kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ada Christian School Society$240,18012%
Haven Ministries$150,00013%
Ada Bible Church$107,5003n/a
The Potters House$100,00011%
Ada Township$75,0001n/a
Ceo Forum Inc$30,00011%
Van Andel Institute$23,92510%
The Joseph Project Inc$10,00016%
New Community Church$10,0001n/a
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration$8,00010%
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All grantees of Soul Soup Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ada Christian School Society$240,18012%
Haven Ministries$150,00013%
Ada Bible Church$107,5003n/a
The Potters House$100,00011%
Ada Township$75,0001n/a
Ceo Forum Inc$30,00011%
Van Andel Institute$23,92510%
The Joseph Project Inc$10,00016%
New Community Church$10,0001n/a
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration$8,00010%
International Justice Mission$5,00010%
Oxford Foundation$2,00011%
Temple Beth El$1,5001n/a
Humane Society of West Michigan$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($383k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Soul Soup Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAda Christian School Society: $240,180 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHaven Ministries: $150,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Potters House: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCeo Forum Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVan Andel Institute: $23,925 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Joseph Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetThe Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Justice Mission: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOxford Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHumane Society of West Michigan: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Jerry & Marcia Tubergen FoundationMI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Bea Aldrink Idema Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Soul Soup Foundation

How much does Soul Soup Foundation give?
Soul Soup Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $97,725 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Soul Soup Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Religion (23%), Community Improvement (9%).
Who are Soul Soup Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Ada Christian School Society ($240k), Haven Ministries ($150k), Ada Bible Church ($108k).
Does Soul Soup Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Soul Soup Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Soul Soup Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Bea Aldrink Idema Foundation.
Where is Soul Soup Foundation based?
Soul Soup Foundation is based in MI.

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 22 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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