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The Sofi Tucker Foundation

To support the health and general well-being of economically and socially disadvantaged women and their families in the united states and africa.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$13M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$19MHuman Services$440kSocial Science$400kEducation$370kYouth Development$150kArts & Culture$125kHealth$100kFood & Nutrition$20k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $13,452,557, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,852,557 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $400,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $13M
$402,557
Median grant
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States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW VOICES FOUNDATION$13,000,000
MADAM CJ WALKER INSTITUTE$402,557
OTIS AND ROSIE BROWN FOUNDATION$50,000
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, 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%THE BOOK FAIRIES: $2k → 6%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 67% of The Sofi Tucker Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Sofi Tucker Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 5 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$20M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-91%
+34%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NV
    NEW VOICES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2024 · $17M · revenue -99% · 48% of their budget
  • BABSON COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.2M · revenue +43%
  • MC
    MADAM CJ WALKER INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS OF COLOR
    2× · 2019–2024 · $703k · revenue -91% · 79% of their budget

Funded once

  • MC
    MADAM CJ WALKER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $400k
  • JR
    JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $320k · revenue -32%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCgraduated
    2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +44%
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
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
2
Women Achieving Success
Employment
3
Womens Campaign International

Women's campaign international (wci) empowers girls and women around the world to actively participate and fill leadership roles in the economy, community development, civil society, and pacebuilding efforts.

International
4
Women Action & the Media Corp

Gender equity in media access, representation, employment and ownership and a world in which a just media is considered essential to a just society. women, action & the media (wam) connects and supports media makers, activists, academics…

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5
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
6
The Conversationalist
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7
Chicago Foundation for Women

For forty years, cfw has been the only organization in the region to take a comprehensive approach to understand and address the challenges and needs women and girls face through every stage of their lives with a focus on it's four impact…

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8
Batonga Foundation

Batonga equips young women and girls in benin and senegal with knowledge and skills they need to be agents of change. through leadership clubs for girls, adolescent girls gain confidence and financial literacy skills. through professional…

Philanthropy
9
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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10
The Council of Urban Professionals Institute

The council of urban professionals institute's (cupi)mission is to inspire, elevate, and empower the next generation of diverse business, civic leaders and women.

Community Improvement
11
Young Black Scholar Institute
Community Improvement
12
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Voices Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Waco Theater Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW VOICES FOUNDATION: $17,309,031 · PhilanthropyNEW VOICES FOUNDATIONMADAM CJ WALKER INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS OF COLOR: $702,557 · Philanthropy+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyDIRECT RELEIF: $430,000 · OtherMADAM CJ WALKER INSTITUTE: $400,000 · OtherJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $320,000 · OtherPRIZM ART FAIR LLC: $100,000 · OtherJUST SHEA & ONE VILLAGE PLANET WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $50,000 · Other+2 more: $28,176 · OtherBABSON COLLEGE: $1,153,000 · EducationGIRLS INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $100,000 · HealthWACO THEATER CENTER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBOOK FAIRIES INC: $1,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$18,061,588Other$1,328,176Education$1,153,000Youth Development$150,000Health$100,000Arts & Culture$25,000Human Services$1,500

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 budgetNEW VOICES FOUNDATION: $17,309,031 over 2y, 48% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $1,153,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMADAM CJ WALKER INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS OF COLOR: $702,557 over 2y, 79% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $320,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGIRLS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOTIS AND ROSIE BROWN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetWACO THEATER CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHope for Youth Inc: $8,176 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOOK FAIRIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 The Sofi Tucker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sofi Tucker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Babson College: 3% of 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 · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Sofi Tucker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sofi Tucker 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 15 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.

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