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The Elsa & Peter Soderberg Charitable at a glance

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The Elsa & Peter Soderberg Charitable

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.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$6.3MHealth$4.0MPhilanthropy$1.4MHousing & Shelter$713kYouth Development$388kFood & Nutrition$386kPublic Benefit$170kAnimals$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
$150,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Project Hope$1,193,344
PATH FINDER INTERNATIONAL$567,356
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$500,000
Near East Foundation$325,000
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$275,000
INVEST IN KIDS$207,750
All Faith Food Bank$200,000
Population Services International$150,563
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene$150,000
A STEP AHEAD CHATTANOOGA$110,000
THE PEOPLE-TO-PE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$100,000
Partners in Health$100,000
Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund$100,000
Harvest House$85,718
PURPLE HEART HOMES INC$67,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Harvest House: $86k → 9%PEACE RIVER COMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERS: $140k → 9%PEACE RIVER COMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERS: $56k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
CT
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 17 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$11M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+43%

Still filing today

82%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther
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

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +14%
  • NE
    NEAR EAST FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +71%
  • AS
    A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $730k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • DE
    DENT EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +43%
  • TT
    THE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +32%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
Institute for Women's Health

The organization eagerly partners with individuals, organizations, and countries that promote the highest attainable health and well-being for women through every stage of their lives. the organization is committed to building coalitions…

Human Services
3
National Network of Public Health Institutes Inc

The national network of public health institutes, inc. (nnphi) is a national public health organization chartered on june 21, 2001. its mission is to support national public health system initiatives and strengthen public health institutes…

Health
4
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
5
Women in Global Health Inc

Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.

Public Benefit
6
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
10
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
11
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
12
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

21 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. 21 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Save The Children Federation Inc: $1,850,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncNEAR EAST FOUNDATION: $1,385,690 · InternationalNEAR EAST FOUNDATIONPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,193,344 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FO…PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $1,054,856 · InternationalPATHFINDER INTERNATIONALTHE PEOPLE-TO-PE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,709,807 · OtherTHE PEOPLE-TO-PE HEALTH FOUNDATI…POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $301,126 · OtherPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONA…BOMA: $170,000 · OtherPeace River Community Housing Partners Inc: $196,200 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $200,000 · Other+6 more: $363,818 · Other+6 moreA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC: $729,574 · HealthA STEP AHEAD …PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $526,210 · HealthPARTNERS IN H…RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $225,000 · HealthRESEARCH FOUN…National Women's Health Network: $100,000 · HealthNational Wome…SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHWEST F…UNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyGULF COAST …PURPLE HEART HOMES INC: $517,000 · Public BenefitINVEST IN KIDS: $337,750 · Youth DevelopmentALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $300,000 · Food & Nutrition
International$5,483,890Other$3,940,951Health$1,580,784Philanthropy$1,400,000Public Benefit$517,000Youth Development$337,750Food & Nutrition$300,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,850,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEAR EAST FOUNDATION: $1,385,690 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,193,344 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $1,054,856 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC: $729,574 over 5y, 18% of budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $526,210 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPURPLE HEART HOMES INC: $517,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INC: $500,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $337,750 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $301,126 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPeace River Community Housing Partners Inc: $196,200 over 2y, 21% of budgetNational Women's Health Network: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE INC: $85,718 over 1y, 30% of budgetDENT EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Elsa & Peter Soderberg Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elsa & Peter Soderberg Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Harvest House Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Elsa & Peter Soderberg Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 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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