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James Paul Sutton Medical Research Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

James Paul Sutton Medical Research Fund

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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$95k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$304k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANNONBALL KIDS CANCER FOUNDATION INC$7,500
ENDURING HEARTS INC$3,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%PARKINSONS FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%CANNONBALL KIDS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 13%THE EHE FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%ENDURING HEARTS INC: $4k → 8%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $12k → 14%Morgan Adams Foundation: $13k → 12%CURESEARCH FOR CHILDRENS CANCER: $13k → 8%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.
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 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
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
2
Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

Fund research to power cures that reduce the percentage of children who perish from cancer until that number reaches zero.

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3
Cog Research Foundation Llc

Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…

Health
4
Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Pediatric cancer foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization that raises funds for groundbreaking research and early phase clinical trials to eradicate childhood cancer. these trials are conducted by world renowned doctors at the…

Health
5
Children's Cancer Research Fund

Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.

Philanthropy
6
Solving Kids' Cancer Inc

Skc impacts children through the initiation of clinical research trials of investigative treatment strategies. our vision is to continue expanding the armamentarium of effective and less toxic treartment strategies for pediatric…

Health
7
Chance for Life

Chance for life's mission is to raise awareness and funds for critical research and clinical trials for pediatric cancer in the united states of america.

Health
8
Beat Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc

Beat childhood cancer drives childhood cancer research and raises awareness, making a difference in kids' survival today. our vision is to change the story for the next family by finding viable treatments and ultimately, cures for…

Health
9
CancerFree Kids

CancerFree KIDS exists to raise awareness of the need for more funding for pediatric cancer research and to raise funds that are invested in early stage, potentially game-changing research focused on gentler treatments and cures for…

Health
10
Cancer Cures 4 Kids

Researching and implementing novel cancer immunotherapies

Health
11
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
12
Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute

To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Curesearch for Children's Cancer; the most unlike its peers is The Ehe 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

8 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.

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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCCANNONBALL KIDS' CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthCANNONBALL KIDS' CANCER FOUNDATION INCTHE EHE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthTHE EHE FOUNDATIONTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $13,350 · HealthTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATIONCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER: $13,350 · HealthCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCERCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $12,250 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCENDURING HEARTS INC: $3,500 · HealthALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Other
Health$87,450Other$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANNONBALL KIDS' CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE EHE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $13,350 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER: $13,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $12,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDURING HEARTS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 James Paul Sutton Medical Research Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Paul Sutton Medical Research Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 8 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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