· Private foundation
Marjorie Sutton Memorial 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bikers Against Child Abuse | $3,000 |
| VA Museum of Natural History Fd | $2,500 |
| Stepping Stones Inc | $1,500 |
| Grace Network | $1,500 |
| SafetyNet | $1,500 |
| Patrick Henry Comm College Foundati | $1,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospita | $1,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $1,000 |
| Bassett Volunteer Fire Department | $1,000 |
| Martinsville-Henry Co YMCA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Piedmont Arts Association | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Rescue Mission Ministries | $1,000 |
| Winns Creek Baptist Church | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- SISAFETYNET INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +99%
- TPThe Piedmont Arts Association9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +22%
- BRBassett Rescue Squad Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- ECELKS Christmas Box Fundone grant, 2021 · $3k
- DUDuke University Medical Centerone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Emergency medical treatment and transportation of ill or injured patients to hospitals.
To provide quality ambulance service to the residents of marion county, west virginia.
Emergency Medical Services
Provides emergency medical care and transportation in Louisa County Virginia and water rescue services for Lake Anna Virginia
Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty
Provide emergency medical services, emergency medical trasportation, and search and rescue of missing persons.
To provide emergency and rescue services to the citizens and visitors of the city of brevard and transylvania county north carolina.
Provide emergency medical and rescue services in the Town of Leesburg and the County of Loudoun, Virginia.
Delivering cost-effective and outcome-based emergency medical services and transportation to the residents of and visitors to Cambridge, Vermont
Provide emergency care and ambulance service to the citizens in eastern Hanover County, Virginia, responding to 800 calls, annually
Provides emergency medical and rescue services to the pembroke nc and surrounding communities.
to provide the citizens and visitors of Highland County with high quality emergency care and the promotion of safety in our community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 115 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 SAFETYNET INC ↗
- Who funds The Piedmont Arts Association ↗
- Who funds Horsepasture Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds Bassett Rescue Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Stepping Stones Inc ↗
- Who funds Dyers Store Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds Axton Life Saving Crew Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds BOYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · United Way of Henry County & Martinsville · William Whidbee Sale & Virginia B Sale Foundation · The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Irving and Jett Groves Charitable Foundation · Wc English Foundation · The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Duke Energy 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 Marjorie Sutton Memorial 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.