Virginia · Nonprofit
SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION
SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,154,135 to it, the largest being THE SANDS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($612,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $590k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $215k
What Sound Future Foundation does
Mission
Sound Future Foundation ("foundation") was formed with the goal of researching and developing meaningful solutions to address the environmental impact of live events. Live events are generally not environmentally friendly and have a large carbon footprint because they consume large amounts of energy and create a lot of waste that is not recyclable or coompostable.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Coordinating and directly conducting research regarding ways the live event industry can operate in a more environmentally sustainable manner.
Educating the general public regarding solutions live events can and are implementing to lessen their negative environmental impact. The foundation will use the results of its research to advocate widespread adoption of successful practices and solutions in a manner that slows or begins to reverse the negative impact events have on the environment.
$247,601 spentof which $9,500 as grants100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $247,601.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $199k to $281k (+41%).
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.
100% of SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $200k → $281k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 SOUND FUTURE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 63% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,266 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,266 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SOUND FUTURE 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUND FUTURE 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 SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION?
- SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,154,135 to it, the largest being THE SANDS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($612,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,154,135 in grants to SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION?
- THE SANDS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $612,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing