· Private foundation
Altoon Sutton Memorial Fund
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
67% of Altoon Sutton Memorial Fund’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 23 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Altoon Sutton Memorial Fund named its own grantees at scale: 35 organizations, $118k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k38 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| YESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH | $8,000 |
| IMAGINE FOUNDATION INC | $8,000 |
| CONGREGATION AND YESHIVA BETH HILLEL | $7,700 |
| CONGREGATION MAGEN DAVID OF WEST DEAL | $7,102 |
| SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL | $7,091 |
| THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH TORAH | $4,213 |
| YESHIVAT HECHAL SHEMUEL INC | $3,600 |
| EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL | $3,032 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EPERION SHLOMO LTORAH VCHESED INC | $3,000 |
| SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC | $2,600 |
| NEW YORK CANCER CENTER | $2,600 |
| AVENUE R SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of Altoon Sutton Memorial Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER4× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +88%
- SMSEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue +2%
- SCSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC3× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SOSYNAGOGUE OF NEW JERSEYone grant, 2020 · $7k
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +5%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
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.
Religious School
Support of religious schools in Israel
Provide support to further jewish education
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
Congregation beth-el sephardic center of jamaica estates is a religious institution
To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 110 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY DAYANUT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds New York Cancer Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Shoresh Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Porat Yoseph Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · E R G Foundation · Cabasso Family Foundation · The Adjmi-Dwek Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Altoon Sutton Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Altoon Sutton Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc: 9% of income from government
- Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc: 8% of income from government
- The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
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