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The Satori Foundation at a glance

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The Satori Foundation

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.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$257kHealth$59kEducation$35kFood & Nutrition$28kHousing & Shelter$26kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$5kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$85k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%THE HUMAN IMPACT: $25k → 14%THE PARENTING CENTER: $25k → 11%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 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
Central Texas Food Bank Inc

To increase food access in Central Texas by providing nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through programs, education, and innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
2
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
3
Texas Medical Center Venture Fund

Provide support to the texas medical center.

Health
4
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
5
Coastal Bend Community Foundation

To enhance the quality of life in the coastal bend area of texas through charitable and educational grants.

Philanthropy
6
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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7
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
8
Community Healthcare of Texas

Community Healthcare of Texas provides compassionate palliative and hospice service to the terminally ill and their families throughout North Central Texas regardless of their ability to pay.

Human Services
9
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
10
Community Foundation of Abilene

To empower people to make a lasting charitable impact on our community. we connect donors to causes they care about, manage strategic investments to preserve our endowments, make grants that align with donor intent, respond to community…

Philanthropy
11
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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12
North Texas Christian Foundation

National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Delta Mu Boule Education Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $205,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INCCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $27,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAXUNT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $28,800 · OtherUNT HEALTH SCIENC…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant …DELTA MU BOULE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherDELTA MU BOULE ED…Individual grant recipient: $3,800 · OtherIndividual grant …Tarrant Area Food Bank: $3,000 · OtherTHE PARENTING CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARENTIN…THE HUMAN IMPACT: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE HUMAN IM…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY: $25,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthFEED THE FRONT LINE: $25,000 · Food & NutritionDELTA MU BOULE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationFort Worth MedTech Center Inc dba TechFW: $5,000 · Community ImprovementBOSS CLUB FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$257,000Other$70,600Human Services$51,000Health$30,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Education$25,000Community Improvement$5,000Youth Development$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $205,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE FRONT LINE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE PARENTING CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDELTA MU BOULE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetTHE HUMAN IMPACT: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFort Worth MedTech Center Inc dba TechFW: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSS CLUB FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Communities Foundatio…Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · 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 Satori Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Satori Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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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    How do I get to The Satori Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Satori Foundation 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 17 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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