California · Nonprofit
Sophia Foundation
Sophia Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $118k
What Sophia Foundation does
Mission
Transformation Through Sacred Art, Sacred Science, And Sacred PracticeToward a world imbued with love and freedom We are forging a new path to Christ,the essence of Divine Love, and Sophia, the wellspring of Divine Wisdom, to serveindividual growth on four levels.Self ~ engaging in a continual process of inner development to actualize ourtranscendent nature and redeem our shadow. Humanity ~ including interpersonal relationships, community relations, andrelationships with other cultures.Nature ~ reclaiming our responsibility to Mother Earth and awakening to thestarry heavens. Spirit ~ opening an experience of the trans-subjective spiritual world, tocultivate co-creative, intuitive capacities in service of God.The Sophia Foundations mission carries forward the spiritual inspiration of RudolfSteiner, Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno), Valentin Tomberg, Daniel Andreev, AnneCatherine Emmerich, and other great mystics. We serve to connect Sophiacommunities around the world working in the spirit of
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Workshops - Grail Training, Annual Retreat and Chorecosmos (2 events held)
$30,998 spent44% of program spendingNewsletter and Study Materials - 100 Study materials delivered and over 1,726 newsletter subscribers, 100 of which and paid subscriptions.
$12,383 spent17% of program spendingPublications and Research
$27,727 spent39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,108.
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 2020 to 2021, from $77k to $144k (+87%).
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.
77% of Sophia Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Sophia Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Sophia Foundation'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Sophia Foundation has grown faster than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Sophia Foundation
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
60%
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 Sophia Foundation: 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 Sophia Foundation?
- Sophia Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sophia Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to Sophia Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Sophia Foundation?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sophia Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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