Support Our Work at Sondercove
At Sondercove, we start from a simple truth: access to mental health and substance use support should not depend on how well someone can navigate systems that were never built with everyone in mind.
Our work exists because far too many individuals and families—particularly Black and Brown community members—are locked out of care, not because they don’t need support, but because the requirements to receive it are rigid, medicalized, and often disconnected from real life. When support is tied to eligibility instead of humanity, people fall through the cracks.
Your support allows us to meet people in those gaps with care that is grounded, culturally relevant, and accountable to the communities we serve.
Why Sondercove Exists
Sondercove operates through two connected entities because no single system captures the full picture of what people need.
Sondercove Wellness, our for-profit arm, serves individuals and families who qualify for Wisconsin’s Comprehensive Community Services program. CCS can be deeply impactful, but eligibility requires a formal diagnosis, a physician willing to prescribe services, and active Medicaid enrollment. For those who meet these criteria, CCS can open doors to meaningful support.
But many people don’t meet those requirements—and not because they are well.
People may still be navigating significant mental health challenges, substance use concerns, trauma, housing instability, or chronic stress, yet remain excluded simply because they lack consistent access to healthcare, distrust medical systems shaped by historical harm, or experience disruptions in insurance coverage. For others, diagnostic frameworks fail to reflect lived experience, or involvement with the criminal legal system creates additional barriers to care. For giving purposes, our Federal Tax Identification Number is 99-0865281.
That is where Sondercove Foundation comes in.
As a 501(c)(3), Sondercove Foundation exists to support individuals and families who do not qualify for CCS but still deserve access to support that honors their dignity, culture, and autonomy. We serve people navigating immigration barriers, unstable housing, inconsistent medical relationships, and systems that too often demand stability before offering care.
These barriers are not personal failures. They are structural—and they disproportionately impact Black and Brown communities.
Sondercove exists to ensure that support does not stop where systems do.
Our Commitment to Accountability
At Sondercove, we do not view donations as charity. We view them as community investment. That means we are intentional and transparent about how funds are used, ensuring resources are directed in ways that truly support individuals, families, and communities.
Our work rejects deficit-based narratives and instead centers lived experience, cultural relevance, and dignity as essential to meaningful care. We recognize that wellness is not linear and that people move through multiple pathways toward healing, each shaped by their identities, histories, and circumstances.
Above all, we remain accountable to the communities we serve. Our responsibility is not only to the systems that fund care, but to the people whose lives and experiences guide the work we do every day.
Choosing to give monthly allows Sondercove to provide consistent, culturally responsive support throughout the year. Ongoing contributions help sustain peer-led and community-based services, ensuring individuals and families are not left without support when funding cycles, eligibility requirements, or systems fall short.
Monthly giving makes it possible for Sondercove to plan responsibly and respond in real time to community needs. Smaller, steady contributions add up to meaningful impact while allowing us to reduce administrative costs and direct more resources toward services, provider sustainability, and access support.
Setting up a recurring gift is simple and flexible. Monthly donations can be adjusted at any time, and donors may choose how and when they receive reminders or receipts. This approach creates ease for both donors and the organization while strengthening long-term access to care.
Our work is possible because of community investment. Monthly giving is one way to ensure support remains steady, intentional, and rooted in dignity rather than urgency.
Where Your Donation Goes
Your contribution directly allows us to meet people where systems fall short.
Donations may support:
Free or reduced-cost peer support for individuals and families not eligible for CCS
Youth, family, and community-based programming grounded in lived experience
Crisis and prevention support outside of emergency or carceral systems
Transportation and access support, reducing practical barriers to care
Basic needs support that stabilizes individuals so healing is possible
Provider stipends and workforce sustainability, ensuring culturally aligned providers are paid fairly and retained
Training, supervision, and development for peer-led and community-based providers
Every dollar helps build access—not dependence—and strengthens pathways to care that honor autonomy, dignity, and choice.
Ways to Give
One-time or recurring donations
Employer or community matching gifts
Program-specific contribution
In-kind or community-based support (upon coordination)
Sondercove Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations made to the Foundation may be tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
