Maryland · Private foundation
The Sonnie 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.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $898k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Sonnie Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $21k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $27k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $37k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $39k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $9k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $46k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $47k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
International$124kScience & Tech$40kArts & Culture$33kHuman Services$29kHealth$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kFood & Nutrition$5kEnvironment$1k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
MI
NY
MA
IA
CA
CO
MD
DC
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rad-Aid International Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC Inc | $28,100 | 3 | 0% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shining Stars Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $3,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rad-Aid International Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC Inc | $28,100 | 3 | 0% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shining Stars Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $3,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Lupus Foundation of America Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Martha's Table Inc | $1,016 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stand Up to Cancer | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sonnie Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.
About The Sonnie Foundation
- How much does The Sonnie Foundation give?
- The Sonnie Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $21,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Sonnie Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (47%), Science & Tech (15%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Sonnie Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rad-Aid International Inc ($75k), Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc ($45k), Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC Inc ($28k).
- Does The Sonnie Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sonnie Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Where is The Sonnie Foundation based?
- The Sonnie Foundation is based in MD.
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