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James & Jane Sutow 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.

$14k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$923k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations James & Jane Sutow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$12k25%
FY20237$43k43%
FY20228$59k25%
FY202111$72k36%
FY20208$59k50%
FY201915$63k47%
FY201814$96k57%
FY201718$115kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$205kPhilanthropy$164kHuman Services$62kHealth$55kReligion$32kCrime & Legal$14kYouth Development$12kAnimals$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
AZ
KS
TN
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($396k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James & Jane Sutow Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwood School: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMission Kids Child Advocacy Center: $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEd Snider Youth Hockey & Education: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBasis Impact Group Foundation Inc: $3,200 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetImajnz Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Agency for Israel - North American Council: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransplant Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Scholars Charter School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLive Like Blaine Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKate Svitek Memorial Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B TteePA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee · Steven and Ilene Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good

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.

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About James & Jane Sutow Foundation

How much does James & Jane Sutow Foundation give?
James & Jane Sutow Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $13,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does James & Jane Sutow Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Philanthropy (26%), Human Services (10%).
Who are James & Jane Sutow Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northwood School ($55k), Congregation Beth Or ($30k), Mission Kids Child Advocacy Center ($14k).
Does James & Jane Sutow Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does James & Jane Sutow Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as James & Jane Sutow Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee, Steven and Ilene Berman Family Foundation Inc, The Saramar Charitable Fund.
Where is James & Jane Sutow Foundation based?
James & Jane Sutow Foundation is based in PA.

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 49 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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