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Marjorie Sutton Memorial Foundation at a glance

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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.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$126kHuman Services$85kPublic Safety & Disaster$83kReligion$52kArts & Culture$50kCrime & Legal$32kEducation$30kRecreation & Sports$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bikers Against Child Abuse$3,000
VA Museum of Natural History Fd$2,500
Grace Network$1,500
SafetyNet$1,500
Stepping Stones Inc$1,500
Bassett Rescue Squad$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Kearfott Memorial Baptist Church$1,000
The Salvation Army$1,000
FAIR$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Martinsville-Henry Co YMCA$1,000
Piedmont Arts Association$1,000
Boys Town$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Boys Town: $2k → 12%Children's Assistive Technology Ser: $5k → 13%Boys Town: $2k → 12%Children's Assistive Technology Ser: $5k → 13%Rescue Mission Ministries: $2k → 20%Boys Town: $1k → 12%Children's Assistive Technology Ser: $3k → 13%Rescue Mission Ministries: $2k → 20%Boys Town: $1k → 12%Children's Assistive Technology Ser: $3k → 13%Rescue Mission Ministries: $2k → 20%Boys Town: $500 → 12%Rescue Mission Ministries: $2k → 20%Boys Town: $500 → 12%Rescue Mission Ministries: $1k → 20%Boys Town: $500 → 12%Rescue Mission Ministries: $1k → 20%Boys Town: $500 → 12%Rescue Mission Ministries: $1k → 20%Boys Town: $500 → 12%Rescue Mission Ministries: $1k → 20%Rescue Mission Ministries: $500 → 20%The Community Dream Center: $1k → 17%Community Storehouse: $500 → 17%Community Storehouse: $500 → 17%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

NH
IA
IN
PA
CA
NE
WV
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$620k · 78 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
33

Total granted

$620k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-2%

Still filing today

36%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SI
    SAFETYNET INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +99%
  • TP
    The Piedmont Arts Association
    9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +22%
  • BR
    Bassett Rescue Squad Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • EC
    ELKS Christmas Box Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • DU
    Duke University Medical Center
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
Clintwood Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc

Emergency medical treatment and transportation of ill or injured patients to hospitals.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Marion County Rescue Squad Inc

To provide quality ambulance service to the residents of marion county, west virginia.

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3
Farmville Rescue & Emergency Medical Services Inc

Emergency Medical Services

Health
4
Lake Anna Rescue Inc

Provides emergency medical care and transportation in Louisa County Virginia and water rescue services for Lake Anna Virginia

Health
5
Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc

Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty

Animals
6
Roanoke Valley Rescue Squad Inc

Provide emergency medical services, emergency medical trasportation, and search and rescue of missing persons.

Health
7
Transylvania County Rescue Squad Brevard

To provide emergency and rescue services to the citizens and visitors of the city of brevard and transylvania county north carolina.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Loudoun County Volunteer Rescue Squad

Provide emergency medical and rescue services in the Town of Leesburg and the County of Loudoun, Virginia.

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9
Cambridge Rescue Squad Inc

Delivering cost-effective and outcome-based emergency medical services and transportation to the residents of and visitors to Cambridge, Vermont

Public Safety & Disaster
10
East Hanover Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc

Provide emergency care and ambulance service to the citizens in eastern Hanover County, Virginia, responding to 800 calls, annually

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11
Pembroke Rescue Squad Inc

Provides emergency medical and rescue services to the pembroke nc and surrounding communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Highland County Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc

to provide the citizens and visitors of Highland County with high quality emergency care and the promotion of safety in our community

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Virginia Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 115 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
24/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bikers Against Child Abuse: $22,000 · OtherMultiple Sclerosis Foundation: $21,000 · OtherThe Piedmont Arts Association: $19,000 · OtherGrace Network: $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherPatrick Henry Comm College Foundati: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherVirginia Museum of Natural History: $16,500 · OtherBassett Volunteer Fire Department: $16,500 · Other+79 more: $242,076 · Other+79 moreSAFETYNET INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAFETYNET …CHILDREN'S ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICE: $15,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S…THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE RESCUE…Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $8,000 · Human ServicesFather Fla…GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,500 · Human Services+3 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesHorsepasture Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc: $17,000 · HealthBassett Rescue Squad Inc: $16,500 · HealthPiedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation: $7,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,750 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthGODS PIT CREW INC: $14,500 · Public Safety & DisasterDyers Store Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $14,500 · Public Safety & DisasterBOYS HOME INC: $7,500 · EducationCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $5,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionVIRGINIA SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE INC: $3,570 · Crime & Legal
Other$492,076Human Services$61,000Health$49,250Public Safety & Disaster$29,000Education$12,500Religion$10,000Crime & Legal$3,570

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAFETYNET INC: $20,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetThe Piedmont Arts Association: $19,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHorsepasture Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc: $17,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetBassett Rescue Squad Inc: $16,500 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICE: $15,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetStepping Stones Inc: $15,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetGODS PIT CREW INC: $14,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDyers Store Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $14,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $12,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAxton Life Saving Crew Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $8,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation: $7,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS HOME INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE INC: $3,570 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE SURVIVOR RESPONSE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARC Workshop Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARTINSVILLE HENRY COUNTY SPCA: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE TRIANGLE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY STOREHOUSE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSNOW CREEK RESCUE SQUAD: $1,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY DREAM CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANVILLE LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID CREW INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarmony Rescue Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.5% 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 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 GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
  • Who funds Dyers Store Volunteer Fire Department 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 Piedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS HOME INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …United Way of Henry C…William Whidbee Sale …The Harvest Foundatio…Edgar a Thurman Fdn C…Irving and Jett Grove…Wc English FoundationThe Thomas B Stanley …Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Bessemer Giving F…Verizon FoundationDuke Energy Foundation
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marjorie Sutton Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marjorie Sutton Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 115 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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