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The Soze Foundation Inc

Form 990EZ - Part III - Exempt Purpose The Soze Foundation Inc is led by a collective of activists, storytellers, artists, and strategies that envisions a world in which every person has the ability and resources to empower changes in their community through the use of art and culture.

$411k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$371k
Largest
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02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$381kYouth Development$20kScience & Tech$10kInternational$6kReligion$5kHealth$5kHuman Services$5kCivil Rights$5k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $377,361, the rows itemized in this filing. The $411,114 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,753 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $250k+1 grant · $371k
$371,361
Median grant
2
States reached
$27k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Art and Advocacy Society Inc$371,361
Moonshot Platform Inc$6,000
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%The Trayvon Martin Foundation: $5k → 15%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
Moonshot Initiative Inc

Promote gender equity in the film & television industry

Arts & Culture
2
Shebuilds Foundation

To accelerate social, economic, and environmental progress globally by equipping entrepreneurs, innovators, and change makers with the tools to scale their impact

Community Improvement
3
The Conversationalist
—
4
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
5
Stichting Womens Initiatives for Gender Justice

Ending impunity for conflict related sexual violence

International
6
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
7
The Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation
Education
8
Worldupstart Impacts

We support institutions and governments worldwide to build entrepreneurial ecosystems that drive scientific and technological breakthroughs. we help transform groundbreaking research into real-world solutions that: advance women's health…

Community Improvement
9
Global Voice
—
10
Technology Policy Institute
International
11
Young Black Scholar Institute
Community Improvement
12
Ten Talents Global Initiatives
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The College and Community Fellowship Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Trayvon Martin 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ART AND ADVOCACY SOCIETY: $371,361 · Arts & CultureART AND ADVOCACY SOCIETY+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBETOPS INC: $10,000 · OtherETERNAL SEED PROVIDERS: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL STUDENT NURSES' ASSOCIATIONINC: $5,000 · OtherMOONSHOTPLATFORMINC: $6,000 · InternationalUltraViolet Education Fund: $5,000 · Civil RightsThe Trayvon Martin Foundation: $5,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$381,361Youth Development$20,000Other$20,000International$6,000Civil Rights$5,000Human Services$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetART AND ADVOCACY SOCIETY: $371,361 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBETOPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMOONSHOTPLATFORMINC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUltraViolet Education Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trayvon Martin Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNATIONAL STUDENT NURSES' ASSOCIATIONINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Soze Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Soze Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
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no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Soze Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Soze Foundation Inc 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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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