· Private foundation
Ralph and Sondra Sutton Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Ralph and Sondra Sutton Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Ralph and Sondra Sutton Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $33k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k34 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH | $15,100 |
| SYNOGOGUE OF DEAL | $4,003 |
| EDMUND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE | $3,584 |
| SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,600 |
| PORAT YOSEF FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION MAGEN DAVID OF WEST DE | $720 |
| Individual grant recipient | $720 |
| ILAN HIGH SCHOOL | $501 |
| REACH FOR THE STARS LEARNING | $501 |
| SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM | $500 |
| CONGREGTION BETH TORAH | $500 |
| AMARICAN FRIENDS OF EPERIAN SHLOMO | $400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $360 |
| Individual grant recipient | $360 |
| Individual grant recipient | $302 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2021, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $702 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YSYESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC5× · 2017–2022 · $51k · revenue +10%
- SCSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC4× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +57%
- IHILAN HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
- YGYeshiva Gedolah of Passaicone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
Religious School
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
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.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Furtherance of jewish education
To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
To further jewish education in israel
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 134 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Porat Yoseph Foundation ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR THE STARS LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BARKAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KETER TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE 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.
Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Altoon Sutton Memorial Fund · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · Cabasso Family Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · Ic Hessed Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ralph and Sondra Sutton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph and Sondra Sutton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc: 9% of income from government
- Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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