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Jane & Sam Sutton Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$176k
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$412kCrime & Legal$215kHuman Services$103kHealth$19kPhilanthropy$17kInternational$10kEducation$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k66 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$400
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $180 → 17%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $27k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $26k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $20k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $11k → 11%SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $1k → 11%MITZVAH MAN FOUNDATION CORP: $360 → 20%AHAVAT HAIM VACHESED: $2k → 6%AHAVAT HAIM VACHESED: $661 → 6%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $2k → 20%AHAVAT HAIM VACHESED: $201 → 6%BIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $52 → 11%KEREN HATZEDAKA: $52 → 11%AHAVAT HAIM VACHESED: $100 → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $2k → 11%SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK: $36 → 20%COMMITTEE FOR THE RESCUE OF ISRAEL BABIES DBA EFRAT: $1k → 20%THE MITZVAH MAN FOUNDATION: $2k → 20%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
NJ
MD
OK
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$688k · 58 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
93

Total granted

$688k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+3%

Still filing today

36%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionInternationalHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TS
    THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER
    4× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +88%
  • YL
    YESHIVAT LELUV OF JERUSALEM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +141%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOL YERUSHALAYIM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CO
    CONGREGATION OHEL YISHAK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • BS
    Berit Shalom Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +101%
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.

04Its 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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
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3
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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4
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
5
American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion
6
Yeshiva Beit Rafael

Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.

Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

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.

Religion
8
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
9
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
10
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
11
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Netiv Aryeh Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 180 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/69
Grantees still filing
36/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN AV: $349,014 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN AVAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN AV - PRIVATE FOUNDATION: $70,200 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN AV - PRIVATE FOUNDATIONCONGREGATION BETH TORAH: $39,408 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH TORAHYESHIVAT LELUV OF JERUSALEM INC: $27,860 · Other+124 more: $198,723 · Other+124 moreTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $85,244 · Human ServicesTHE SPECIAL …+8 more: $9,945 · Human Services+8 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOL YERUSHALAYIM: $17,700 · EducationBARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $3,221 · EducationYESHIVA KETER TORAH INC: $1,800 · Education+10 more: $3,523 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $13,506 · PhilanthropyImanu: $2,160 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,700 · PhilanthropyTHE MATAN BASESER FOUNDATION CO MOSHE KESTENBAUM: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNISHMAT AVRAHAM INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $2,421 · PhilanthropyBerit Shalom Inc: $5,000 · ReligionNESS 26 INC: $2,783 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC: $1,000 · ReligionSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY DAYANUT PROGRAM INC: $860 · ReligionCHAYIM V CHESED: $800 · Religion+2 more: $302 · ReligionREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $3,600 · HealthFLATBUSH VOLUNTEERS OF HATZOLOH INC: $1,800 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,087 · HealthHATZALAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $1,002 · Health+2 more: $400 · HealthLEV MODIIN: $2,610 · InternationalNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $1,800 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEHEBAR SEPHARDIC CENTER INC: $700 · InternationalCARMEI HA'IR INTERNATIONAL: $566 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YA'ADIR TORAH: $500 · InternationalGush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman: $500 · International
Other$685,205Human Services$95,189Education$26,244Philanthropy$21,787Religion$10,745Health$7,889International$6,676

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $85,244 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVAT LELUV OF JERUSALEM INC: $27,860 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOL YERUSHALAYIM: $17,700 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $13,506 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShoresh Inc: $8,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBerit Shalom Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $3,221 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAHAVAT HAIM VACHESED: $2,863 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEV MODIIN: $2,610 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetImanu: $2,160 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $1,938 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMITZVAH MAN FOUNDATION CORP: $1,860 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLATBUSH VOLUNTEERS OF HATZOLOH INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA KETER TORAH INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $1,724 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee for the Rescue of Israel Babies DBA Efrat: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHATZALAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $1,002 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MATAN BASESER FOUNDATION CO MOSHE KESTENBAUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNISHMAT AVRAHAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASKEEL EL DAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $882 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECHO NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH: $875 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY DAYANUT PROGRAM INC: $860 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAYIM V CHESED: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORA VESIMCHA: $720 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LEAGUE COMMUNITY RESIDENCES: $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBNOS MELECH OF LAKEWOOD INC: $706 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEHEBAR SEPHARDIC CENTER INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARMEI HA'IR INTERNATIONAL: $566 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMABAS FUND INC: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YA'ADIR TORAH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DESTINY FOUNDATION: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL ISRAEL ALLIANCE: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOL YEHUDA INC: $360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGINE ACADEMY: $328 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $301 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $216 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Cancer Center Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBET YAAKOV OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗

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.

Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Howard Hoffman & …Jewish Communal FundIsaac & Marjorie Gind…E R G FoundationCabasso Family Founda…Marbeh Shalom Foundat…Altoon Sutton Memoria…The Ralph S Gindi Fam…The Amin and Lillian …Ralph J Harary Founda…The Jimmy and Berta K…
Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY84.1× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jane & Sam Sutton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane & Sam Sutton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jane & Sam Sutton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jane & Sam Sutton Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 180 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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