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Sonedna Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $406k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE (MELA) | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $218,047 |
| WEST TELLAHATCHIE | $100,810 |
| INSTITUTE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES | $86,986 |
| Individual grant recipient | $31,756 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $11,000 |
| REZILIENT KIDZ | $3,853 |
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $3,584 |
| MS HEAD START ASSOCATION | $2,800 |
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 (FY17–24, $680k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% 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.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 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; $368k 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
- NMNORTH MISSISSIPPI EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2.9M · revenue +35%
- IOINSTITUTE OF COMMUNITY SERVICESINC5× · 2017–2024 · $536k · revenue +48%
- ECELOHIM CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $112k · revenue +44% · 54% of their budget
Funded once
- LFLEADING FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue -28%
- PFPEARSON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +109%
- FLFOR LOVE OF CHILDRENone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue -43%
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.
Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)
The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and disseminates independent, high-quality research to improve learning for all children. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, LPI connects policymakers and stakeholders at the local, state,…
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
Pahara institute strengthens and sustains values-driven leaders who are transforming public education so that every child is prepared to lead a free and fulfilling life.
Education of students grades kindergarten thru 8th offering experiential learning, personalized instruction (10:1 student teacher ratio), team conflict resolution, high academic standards and multi age classes and mentorship.
ICRI provides high quality education and care to children and their families, responsive and emergent to each childs unique needs and strengths.
Lolo preschool provides a safe and nurturing environment where children can mature independently while being challenged and guided to explore the world around them.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
To ensure that every student can become a confident, independent, and lifelong reader by partnering with schools and communities to provide personalized, evidence-based literacy support and individualized instruction. the organization…
To provide educational and therapeutic services, at a professional level, for infants, toddlers and preschool children up to 12 years and their families through supporting the family unit and working with each child to develop his or her…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leading for Children and the most unlike its peers is North Mississippi Education Consortium Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 NORTH MISSISSIPPI EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF COMMUNITY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds ELOHIM CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEADING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PEARSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REZILIENTKIDZ ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Sonedna 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Leading for Children — 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.
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