· Private foundation
Steven & Sharon Sutton Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES UNDER 1000 | $10,206 |
| SHAARE ZION CONGREGATION | $8,609 |
| DSN COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,600 |
| SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL | $3,807 |
| MIKDASH ELIYAHU | $2,164 |
| YESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH | $2,051 |
| BARKAI FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| YESHIVA SHAARE TORAH | $1,800 |
| SEMAHOT | $1,287 |
| MATTAN BASSETER | $1,200 |
| OROT HAIM VEMOSHE | $1,000 |
| EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL | $1,000 |
| BONEI OLAM | $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 (FY21–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% 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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- DSDEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $19k · revenue +116%
- BOBonei Olam Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +24%
- BFBARKAI FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- AHAHAVAT HAIM VACHESEDone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +20%
- SZSHETILE ZETIM TORAH INSTITUTIONSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- DCDSN COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $6k
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
Religious Teaching
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
Operation of a post-secondary educational institution providing rabbinical training with a focus on sephardic/middle eastern jewish tradition.
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
Kerem bais yaakov seminary is a religious institution with traditional values dedicated to advancing students in classical torah studies while establishing a torah outlook that students can apply to daily life. the curriculum enhances…
To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY
To support schools of religious studies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivat Shaare Torah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ilan High School. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 51 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 DEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
- Who funds AHAVAT HAIM VACHESED ↗
- Who funds BARKAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH ORE SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds MATTAN BASSETER INC ↗
- Who funds Porat Yoseph Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds CHAZAK ↗
- Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEHEBAR SEPHARDIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MASKEEL EL DAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DARCHEI DAVID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KETER TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds BNEI MELACHIM INC ↗
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 · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · E R G Foundation · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Altoon Sutton Memorial Fund · Cabasso Family Foundation · Ic Hessed Foundation · Chehebar Family Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Maj Franco Family 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 Steven & Sharon 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.
- Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc — 8% 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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