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Jane & Sam Sutton 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k66 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN AV - PRIVATE FOUNDATION | $70,200 |
| CONGREGATION SHAARE RAHAMIM | $15,824 |
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $13,506 |
| THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER | $11,000 |
| YESHIVAT SHAARE RAHAMIM | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH TORAH | $9,167 |
| YESHIVAT LELUV OF JERUSALEM | $3,600 |
| RENEWAL | $3,600 |
| YESHIVAT HECHAL SHEMUEL | $3,320 |
| IRENE'S HOME ESSENTIALS | $2,800 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOL YERUSHALAYIM INC | $2,700 |
| MAGEN DAVID CONGREGATION OF SURFSIDE INC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL | $1,663 |
| SHORESH | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
58 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 27 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- TSTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER4× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +88%
- YLYESHIVAT LELUV OF JERUSALEM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +141%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOL YERUSHALAYIM3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BSBerit Shalom Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +101%
- COCONGREGATION OHEL YISHAK INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Religious School
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
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.
Support of religious schools in Israel
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Netiv Aryeh Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Matan Baseser Foundation Co Moshe Kestenbaum. 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 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 180 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 THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT LELUV OF JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOL YERUSHALAYIM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Shoresh Inc ↗
- Who funds Berit Shalom Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds BARKAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AHAVAT HAIM VACHESED ↗
- Who funds NESS 26 INC ↗
- Who funds LEV MODIIN ↗
- Who funds Imanu ↗
- Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH MAN FOUNDATION CORP ↗
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: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · Cabasso Family Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Altoon Sutton Memorial Fund · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable 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 Jane & Sam Sutton 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.
- Bnos Melech of Lakewood Inc — 21% of income from government
- 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
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.
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