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Sound

SOUND's mission is improving lives by providing equitable, recovery focused behavioral healthcare for all in our community.

$403k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$711k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $284k
$45,925
Median grant
1
States reached
$104M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALOR APARTMENT ASSOCIATES$133,056
LAUREL HOUSING ASSOCIATION$76,017
OAK MANOR ASSOCIATES$75,054
ARBOR HOUSING ASSOCIATES$45,925
HEATHER APARTMENT ASSOCIATES$45,741
KATERI HOUSE HOUSING ASSOCIATION$14,500
CASCADE CLUSTER APARTMENTS ASSOCIATES$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%VALOR APARTMENT ASSOCIATES: $133k → 9%VALOR APARTMENT ASSOCIATES: $101k → 9%HEATHER APARTMENT ASSOCIATES: $70k → 9%HEATHER APARTMENT ASSOCIATES: $46k → 9%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$711k · 7 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
0

Total granted

$711k
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • VA
    VALOR APARTMENT ASSOCIATES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $234k · revenue +3% · 57% of their budget
  • LH
    LAUREL HOUSING ASSOCIATES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $118k · revenue -3% · 37% of their budget
  • HA
    HEATHER APARTMENT ASSOCIATES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $116k · revenue -18% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

    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
    04the grantee network

    7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    6
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    7/7
    Grantees still filing
    2/7
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    VALOR APARTMENT ASSOCIATES: $233,828 · Human ServicesVALOR APARTMENT ASSOCIATESHEATHER APARTMENT ASSOCIATES: $115,674 · Human ServicesHEATHER APARTMENT ASSOCIATESLAUREL HOUSING ASSOCIATES: $118,389 · Housing & ShelterLAUREL HOUSING ASSOCIATESOAK MANOR ASSOCIATES: $112,359 · Housing & ShelterOAK MANOR ASSOCIATESKATERI HOUSE HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $36,094 · Housing & ShelterKATERI HOUSE HOUSING ASSOCIATIONCASCADE CLUSTER APARTMENT ASSOCIATES: $34,192 · Housing & ShelterCASCADE CLUSTER APARTMENT ASSOCIATESARBOR HOUSING ASSOCIATES: $60,592 · HealthARBOR HOU…
    Human Services$349,502Housing & Shelter$301,034Health$60,592

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVALOR APARTMENT ASSOCIATES: $233,828 over 3y, 57% of budgetLAUREL HOUSING ASSOCIATES: $118,389 over 3y, 37% of budgetHEATHER APARTMENT ASSOCIATES: $115,674 over 3y, 43% of budgetOAK MANOR ASSOCIATES: $112,359 over 3y, 51% of budgetARBOR HOUSING ASSOCIATES: $60,592 over 2y, 31% of budgetKATERI HOUSE HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $36,094 over 3y, 25% of budgetCASCADE CLUSTER APARTMENT ASSOCIATES: $34,192 over 3y, 26% 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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Sound funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sound. Bigger dots raise more.

    2025
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      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.

      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 7 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

      Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $250k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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