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Sound Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$698kCrime & Legal$50kArts & Culture$30kHealth$22kEnvironment$5kAnimals$3kRecreation & Sports$1k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$783k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAK BLUFFS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$26,137
MARTHA'S VINEYARD REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL$21,091
ISLAND AUTISM GROUP$9,000
WEST TISBURY LIBRARY$3,700
ISLAND CHILDREN'S SCHOOL$1,360
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SIMA STUDIOS: $20k → 14%SIMA STUDIOS: $5k → 14%SIMA STUDIOS: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$751k · 14 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$751k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+53%

Still filing today

36%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • IA
    ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $19k · revenue +59%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +409%
  • IC
    ISLAND CHILDREN'S SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • HS
    HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • VC
    VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Island Montessori School Inc

Our mission at Island Montessori School is to create a Montessori community that respects each child as an individual and fosters in each student respect for self and others, joy in discovery, independence, communal responsibility, and a…

Education
2
Montessori Island School Inc

Private elementary school

Education
3
Marin Mountain School

Child advocacy and educational programs for preschool aged children.

Unclassified
4
Villa Montessori School Ltd

Preschool, day care service

5
Virgin Islands Montessori School Inc

The Virgin Islands Montessori School and Peter Gruber International Academy is committed providing an Education for Life, consistent with Montessori principles, reflecting the richess of our diverse culture and upholding international…

Education
6
Island Education Inc

Our mission is that amelia island montessori embodies a child-centered education, grounded in montessori philosophy and methodology, that supports the whole child, inspiring independent thinkers and cultivating collaborative citizens.

7
Island Children's Montessori School

Montessori education for ages 3 to 6 for 9 months yearly

8
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
9
Lexington Montessori School Inc

Lexington montessori school builds an inclusive, joyful community that ignites self-discovery through purposeful learning, inspiring children to embrace and challenge the world with compassion, resilience and courage.

Education
10
Mississippi Valley Montessori School Inc

Mississsippi valley montessori provides an authentic montessori environment for children rooted in the fundamental tenets of the montessori three-year model.

Education
11
Vincent S Mastro Montessori Academy

Education as per montessori philosophy

Education
12
Violeta Montessori School Inc

The school's primary goal is to be an experiment in a new learning environment, blurring the boundaries between home-school and institutional schooling, between scientists and teachers, between schools and the neighborhoods around them.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vineyard Montessori School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Island Children's School Inc. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARTHA'S VINEYARD REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL — $200,021 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOLOAK BLUFFS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $159,991 · OtherOAK BLUFFS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLEDGARTOWN SCHOOL — $111,880 · OtherEDGARTOWN SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $53,140 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWEST TISBURY SCHOOL — $52,984 · OtherWEST TISBURY SCHOOLTHE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD — $30,000 · OtherMV PUBLIC CHARTER HOUSE — $28,000 · Other+10 more — $60,692 · Other+10 moreEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $50,000 · Civil RightsSIMA STUDIOS — $30,000 · Human ServicesISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC — $19,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC — $5,400 · EducationMISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC — $2,625 · EducationVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · Environment
Other$696,708Civil Rights$50,000Human Services$30,000Health$19,000Education$8,025Environment$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMA STUDIOS — $30,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC — $19,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC — $5,400 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC — $2,625 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetISLAND CHILDREN'S SCHOOL INC — $2,180 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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 EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
  • Who funds SIMA STUDIOS
  • Who funds ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds MISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC
  • Who funds ISLAND CHILDREN'S SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds VINEYARD MONTESSORI SCHOOL 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.

The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Slough Farm Foundation · South Mountain Company Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sound Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sound Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sound Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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