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Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation at a glance

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Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$657k
Granted FY2024still arriving
148
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$3.0MEducation$670kHuman Services$518kHealth$368kFood & Nutrition$119kPhilanthropy$106kArts & Culture$66kEmployment$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 148 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k121 grants · $259k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $399k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR'S FUND INC$38,875
YAD YOSEF TORAH CENTER$30,000
YAD YOSEF TORAH CENTER$30,000
CONGREGATION BEIT EDMOND$25,000
CONGREGATION BEIT EDMOND$25,000
CONGREGATION BEIT EDMOND$25,000
RENEWAL$18,900
SIMHA ORGANIZATION$15,000
SIMHA ORGANIZATION$11,000
SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM$10,001
YDE$10,000
SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN$10,000
SHUVI NAFSHI FOUNDATION$10,000
SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN$10,000
YDE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $309k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MISASKIM: $500 → 20%MISASKIM: $500 → 20%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 11%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $11k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $11k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $10k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $10k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $10k → 20%BELEV ECHAD: $3k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $2k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $360 → 17%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $10k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $10k → 20%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $15k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $15k → 17%THE SPECIAL CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 11%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $3k → 20%EMAHOT FOUNDATION: $1k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $501 → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $501 → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $252 → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $180 → 20%OTSAR FAMILY SERVICES: $180 → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $152 → 20%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $35k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $30k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $26k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $25k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $13k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $9k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $8k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $5k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $5k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $5k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $2k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $2k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $500 → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $260 → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $101 → 17%AHAVA BABY: $2k → 20%MESILA INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 20%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND: $1k → 20%AHAVA BABY: $300 → 20%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
AR
DC
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 115 repeat orgs$762k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

115 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
102

Total granted

$4.9M
$602k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+12%

Still filing today

39%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $208k · revenue +36%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $178k · revenue +18%
  • SM
    SEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $125k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • PN
    PROPEL NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue -75%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $26k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
3
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Yeshiva Keren Hatorah of Passaic- Clifton

To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.

Education
6
Yeshiva Derech Hatorah-Yeshivat Mizrachi Lbanim

A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.

Education
7
Yeshiva Bais Mordechai of Teaneck

To provide religious Jewish education.

Education
8
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
9
Sherit Isroel
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10
Yeshiva Gedola Na'os Yaakov

A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study

Education
11
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
12
Yeshiva Yesodei Hachaim

To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesorah Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mind Travel Foundation Formally Murray Hidary 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

93 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. 93 of the 248 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/93
Grantees still filing
67/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL: $430,301 · OtherSYNAGOGUE OF DEALATERET TORAH CENTER: $253,000 · OtherATERET TORAH CENTERYAD YOSEF: $246,000 · OtherYAD YOSEFCONGREGATION BEIT EDMOND: $242,012 · OtherCONGREGATION BEIT EDMONDMAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH: $205,301 · OtherMAGEN DAVID YESHIVAHFREEHOLD KOLLEL INC: $168,000 · Other+140 more: $2,063,613 · Other+140 moreSEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC: $305,000 · EducationSEPHARDIC ACA…LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $80,000 · EducationLAKEWOOD CHED…TIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC: $51,500 · EducationTIFERES BAIS …ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $45,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL …Bais Yaakov High School of Lakewood Inc: $27,000 · EducationBNOS ESTHER MALKA INC: $25,000 · Education+17 more: $155,690 · Education+17 moreFRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC: $178,001 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $65,501 · PhilanthropyGEMAH BET YISRAEL INC: $45,500 · PhilanthropyDONORS FUND INC: $38,875 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $164,601 · Human ServicesSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $75,749 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $27,500 · Human Services+4 more: $8,960 · Human ServicesSEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC: $125,000 · ReligionShuvi Nafshi Foundation INC: $51,800 · ReligionMAGEN ABRAHAM YESHIVA INC CONGREGATION BNEI OVADIA: $43,700 · ReligionCONGREGATION MAGEN DAVID OF MANHATTAN: $13,540 · ReligionYESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC: $12,000 · Religion+3 more: $11,000 · ReligionSIMHA ORGANIZATION INC: $114,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $62,500 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $22,728 · HealthNew York Cancer Center Inc: $21,500 · HealthMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · Health+1 more: $6,000 · HealthSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $207,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $4,700 · Youth Development
Other$3,608,227Education$689,190Philanthropy$331,377Human Services$306,810Religion$257,040Health$244,728Youth Development$212,200

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC: $305,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $207,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC: $178,001 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $164,601 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC: $125,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetSIMHA ORGANIZATION INC: $114,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC: $113,400 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGESHER YEHUDA INC: $101,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $75,749 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $65,501 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $62,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROPEL NETWORK INC: $52,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetShuvi Nafshi Foundation INC: $51,800 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC: $51,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGEMAH BET YISRAEL INC: $45,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGEN ABRAHAM YESHIVA INC CONGREGATION BNEI OVADIA: $43,700 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDONORS FUND INC: $38,875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $34,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBais Yaakov High School of Lakewood Inc: $27,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBNOS ESTHER MALKA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $22,728 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Cancer Center Inc: $21,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetYESHIVA TIFERES TORAH INC: $21,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA TORAS ARON INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEXCEED NETWORK: $18,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAIS KAILA TORAH PREPARATORY HS: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA CHAYEI OLAM: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHEDVAS BAIS YAAKOV INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONGREGATION MAGEN DAVID OF MANHATTAN: $13,540 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBNOS BRACHA INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTALMUDIC RESEARCH CENTER OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMosdos Yaakov Vyisroel: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBMG STUDENT AID FUND: $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYESHIVA SHAGAS ARYEH INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBNOS ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $6,640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $6,188 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA OHR YEHUDA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA EITZ CHAIM OF HILLSIDE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC ↗
  • Who funds MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMHA ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GESHER YEHUDA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PROPEL NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Shuvi Nafshi Foundation INC ↗
  • Who funds TIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC ↗
  • Who funds GEMAH BET YISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds MAGEN ABRAHAM YESHIVA INC CONGREGATION BNEI OVADIA ↗
  • Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗

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.

Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Joe & Eileen Sutton F…Ralph J Harary Founda…The Howard Hoffman & …The Amin and Lillian …The Ralph S Gindi Fam…The Setton FoundationJewish Communal FundSamuel & Mollie Jemal…Marbeh Shalom Foundat…The Jimmy and Berta K…Cabasso Family Founda…
Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY108.7× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Joe & Eileen Sutton Family Foundation · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Cabasso Family Foundation

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 Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Chayei Olam: 10% of income from government
  • Bet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Bnos Bracha Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Shagas Aryeh Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Tiferes Torah Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Bnos Esther Malka Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation 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 248 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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