· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| NORTHWOOD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $1,500 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PA | $1,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNORTHWOOD SCHOOL2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +9%
- MKMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +490%
- KAKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- ACABRAMSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $23k
- AFABRAMSON FAMILY CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $10k
- ESED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +76%
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…
We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 49 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 FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds BASIS IMPACT GROUP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION ↗
- Who funds IMAJNZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James & Jane Sutow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James & Jane Sutow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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