· Private foundation
David and Ann Sutherland Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of DAVID AND ANN SUTHERLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| DOEL REED CENTER FOR THE ARTS OSU FOUNDATION | $28,000 |
| SPCA OF TEXAS | $13,000 |
| OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE | $12,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS | $7,000 |
| DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM | $5,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WOODALL RODGERS PARK FOUNDATION DBA KLYDE WARREN PARK | $5,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW | $500 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $300 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +49%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION4× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +41%
- DADALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +8%
Funded once
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue +40%- UFUSICOC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TUTROUT UNLIMITEDone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To help the advancement of the sheet metal and air conditioning industry and to foster and encourage the organization and continuing function of the regional, state, and local associations.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Support of the dallas zoo as an outstanding center of education, entertainment and wildlife conservation through fundraising, volunteerism, promoting public awareness and participation, and enhancing the visitor experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds THE SUICIDE AND CRISIS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOVENLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS HILLS PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET MERCIES RESCUE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION I ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Fidelity Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David and Ann Sutherland Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.