· Private foundation
The Soo Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Impact Missions Inc | $54,000 |
| Milarepa Osel Cho Dzong | $24,000 |
| North Carolina Botanical Garden Fnd | $22,000 |
| Yeshe Nyingpo Inc | $20,000 |
| American Red Cross | $20,000 |
| John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center | $12,000 |
| Hirshberg Fnd for Pancreatic Resear | $10,000 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network | $10,000 |
| Dudjom Foundation | $8,800 |
| Dispute Settlement Center | $7,500 |
| Homes of Hope India | $5,000 |
| Animal Protection Society of Durham | $5,000 |
| Religious Coalition for Nonviolent | $3,000 |
| Alliance Francaise of Raleigh-Durha | $3,000 |
| Ackland Art Museum | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $210k · revenue +145%- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES4× · 2017–2020 · $183k · revenue +28%
DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +566%
Funded once
- BTBSA Troop 951 Mount Pleasant UMCone grant, 2017 · $20k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +27%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +64%
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.
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.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…
The montessori school of raleigh (msr) and carolina preparatory academy (carolina prep) are the triangle's modern embodiment and mindful practice of the time-proven montessori philosophy and the world-renowned international baccalaureate…
Omni Montessori School is dedicated to adhering to the teachings of Maria Montessori by providing a child-centered environment that offers an individualized and integrated curriculum for students age 3 - grade nine.
Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…
Our mission is to empower and equip first-generation college students in durham public schools, their families, and educators to become the leaders that will transform our city.
Provision of quality k12 educational program within a safe, diverse and challenging environment.
Community school of davidson believes that every student can and will succeed in ways that reflect his or her own aptitudes and interests. our mission is to use the principles of "the basis school" to provide an optimum environment for…
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical (continued on…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER FRIEN ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM ↗
- Who funds DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · The Forest At Duke Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke University · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Soo Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Soo Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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