Puerto Rico · Nonprofit
Happy Sonship
Happy Sonship (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,434,122 to it, the largest being PURE INC ($501,188). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $906k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $402k
What Happy Sonship does
Mission
Our mission is to promote the rights of every person, especially the families most disadvantaged in our country; such as the elderly, children, single mothers, individuals with a functional disability; since everyone deserves to enjoy a dignified and full life with equal opportunities to transform society, eradicate poverty and hunger.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
VEGA BAJA, PUERTO RICO - LOCAL IMPACT WITH GLOBAL HEART: At our campus in Vega Baja, we're not just responding to crisis - we're building something sustainable, local, and full of dignity. COMMUNITY FARM: We grow organic fruits and vegetables year-round on our community farm, led by local farmers and volunteers. These harvests go directly into our meals and our market - feeding our people, honoring our land, and reclaiming food sovereignty. SOCIAL KITCHEN: In our Cocina Social, we cook more than 850 meals every week, all made with love and local produce. These meals are delivered directly to the homes of elderly people living in poverty - because no one should grow old and grow hungry. SOLIDARITY MARKET: Every Thursday, our Colmado Solidario opens its doors to the most vulnerable. It's not a handout - it's a place of choice, dignity, and care. Our participants take what they need, receive health services, and participate in wellness workshops designed to extend their quality of life. A MOVEMENT ROOTED IN DIGNITY What we're building here is more than a charity - it's a movement. Powered by local workers, sustained by donors and volunteers, and deeply rooted in our belief that honra…
$429,320 spentof which $616,516 as grants100% of program spendingRent Income of Volunteers
$0 spent$8,490 earned by the program0% of program spendingSales of custom clothes
$0 spent$280,643 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $429,320.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $29k to $839k (+2755%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 100% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of Happy Sonship’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $500 → $324k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Happy Sonship’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Happy Sonship leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Happy Sonship.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 75% · 2021 60% · 2022 56% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of Happy Sonship's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of Happy Sonship's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $445k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Puerto Rico, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $756k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Happy Sonship has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Happy Sonship
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Puerto Rico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Happy Sonship: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Happy Sonship?
- Happy Sonship (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,434,122 to it, the largest being PURE INC ($501,188). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Happy Sonship have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,434,122 in grants to Happy Sonship, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Happy Sonship?
- PURE INC is the largest funder on record, with $501,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Happy Sonship find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Puerto Rico. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing