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Steven & Sharon Sutton Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$146kPhilanthropy$96kHealth$26kYouth Development$22kHuman Services$18kEducation$14kInternational$2kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$840
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BONEI OLAM$1,000
OROT HAIM VEMOSHE$1,000
EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AHAVAT HAIM VACHESED: $10k → 6%BONEI OLAM: $4k → 17%SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK: $2k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $9k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $2k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $1k → 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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$244k · 14 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
36

Total granted

$244k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+8%

Still filing today

29%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DS
    DEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $19k · revenue +116%
  • BO
    Bonei Olam Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +24%
  • BF
    BARKAI FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AH
    AHAVAT HAIM VACHESED
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +20%
  • SZ
    SHETILE ZETIM TORAH INSTITUTIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • DC
    DSN COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
3
Sherit Isroel
—
4
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
5
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
6
Yeshiva Beit Rafael

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

Philanthropy
7
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
8
Bet Midrash Ohel Torah

Operation of a post-secondary educational institution providing rabbinical training with a focus on sephardic/middle eastern jewish tradition.

Education
9
Yeshiva Gedola Na'os Yaakov

A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study

Education
10
Kerem Bais Yaakov Seminary Inc

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…

Religion
11
Yeshiva Yesodei Hachaim

To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY

—
12
Me'ohr Bais Yaakov Inc

To support schools of religious studies.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivat Shaare Torah Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 51 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES UNDER 1000: $95,673 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES UNDER 1000SHAARE ZION CONGREGATION: $47,922 · OtherSHAARE ZION CONGREGATIONSYNAGOGUE OF DEAL: $19,871 · OtherSYNAGOGUE OF DEALEDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL NJ: $11,423 · OtherSHETILE ZETIM TORAH INSTITUTIONS: $9,854 · Other+29 more: $65,069 · Other+29 moreBonei Olam Inc: $15,500 · Human ServicesBonei Ola…AHAVAT HAIM VACHESED: $10,101 · Human ServicesAHAVAT HA…SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSBH COMMU…DEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC: $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHAZAK: $2,600 · Youth DevelopmentBARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · EducationTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $4,000 · EducationMATTAN BASSETER INC: $4,000 · EducationYESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC: $2,800 · EducationILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1,800 · EducationYESHIVA KETER TORAH INC: $1,503 · EducationYESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC: $4,900 · ReligionBNEI MELACHIM INC: $1,501 · ReligionTHE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEHEBAR SEPHARDIC CENTER INC: $1,950 · InternationalMASKEEL EL DAL SOCIETY: $1,800 · Community ImprovementTHE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$249,812Human Services$27,601Youth Development$21,600Education$20,603Religion$7,401International$1,950Community Improvement$1,800Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAHAVAT HAIM VACHESED: $10,101 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATTAN BASSETER INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPorat Yoseph Foundation: $3,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAFE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAZAK: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEHEBAR SEPHARDIC CENTER INC: $1,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDARCHEI DAVID FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASKEEL EL DAL SOCIETY: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA KETER TORAH INC: $1,503 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 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 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 DARCHEI DAVID FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MASKEEL EL DAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA KETER TORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds BNEI MELACHIM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM 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.

Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Howard Hoffman & …The Ralph S Gindi Fam…Jewish Communal FundE R G FoundationThe Amin and Lillian …Altoon Sutton Memoria…Cabasso Family Founda…Ic Hessed FoundationChehebar Family Found…The Jimmy and Berta K…The Maj Franco Family…
Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY54.2× affinity25 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Steven & Sharon 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 51 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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