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Sugar Lakes 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.

$766k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Education$1.4MHealth$335kHuman Services$239kAnimals$180kReligion$140kArts & Culture$94kCivil Rights$45kEnvironment$600Other$0
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$931
Median grant
3
States reached
$146k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALVARY BAPTIST SCHOOL$750,000
RADIANT LIFE CHURCH$13,975
M'SHOOGY'S ANIMAL RESCUE$931
ISLE OF THE SUN$500
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS$150
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%MAYO CLINIC FOR EDUCATIONRESEARCH: $115k → 11%HELPING HANDS: $199k → 7%KEARNEY FIRST BAPTIST: $12k → 13%CALVARY BAPTIST SCHOOL: $750k → 7%ANIMAL KIND: $10k → 11%ANNAPOLIS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $46k → 17%NORTHERN HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH: $49k → 23%RADIANT LIFE CHURCH: $9k → 10%SUNRISE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $21k → 16%RADIANT LIFE CHURCH: $14k → 8%M'SHOOGY'S ANIMAL RESCUE: $36k → 8%CORNERSTONE CLASSICAL SCHOOL: $30k → 7%BLACK CANYON ANIMAL SHELTER: $16k → 12%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $76k → 13%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH: $100k → 9%HEED UGANDA CHRIST CHURCH: $15k → 9%YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%MARANATHA CHRISTIAN: $160k → 6%MAYO CLINIC FOR EDUCATIONRESEARCH: $115k → 11%HELPING HANDS: $40k → 7%CALVARY BAPTIST SCHOOL: $41k → 7%ANNAPOLIS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $27k → 17%NORTHERN HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH: $27k → 23%SUNRISE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $13k → 16%M'SHOOGY'S ANIMAL RESCUE: $35k → 8%CORNERSTONE CLASSICAL SCHOOL: $26k → 7%BLACK CANYON ANIMAL SHELTER: $15k → 12%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $27k → 12%SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $57k → 13%HEED UGANDA CHRIST CHURCH: $11k → 9%YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%MARANATHA CHRISTIAN: $66k → 6%NORTHERN HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH: $14k → 23%SUNRISE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 16%M'SHOOGY'S ANIMAL RESCUE: $35k → 8%CORNERSTONE CLASSICAL SCHOOL: $26k → 7%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $22k → 12%SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50k → 13%YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%MARANATHA CHRISTIAN: $66k → 6%CORNERSTONE CLASSICAL SCHOOL: $22k → 7%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $13k → 12%SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $36k → 13%MARANATHA CHRISTIAN: $60k → 6%CORNERSTONE CLASSICAL SCHOOL: $10k → 7%SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $21k → 13%MARANATHA CHRISTIAN: $34k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 21 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
14

Total granted

$2.7M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+21%

Still filing today

29%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
AnimalsEducationHealthPublic BenefitReligionOther

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

  • SC
    SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $240k · revenue +199%
  • MA
    MSHOOGY ANIMAL RESCUE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $108k · revenue +49%
  • AC
    ANNAPOLIS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $82k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • RL
    RADIANT LIFE CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $9k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
2
Loving All Animals Inc

To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.

Philanthropy
3
The Luving Paws Foundation Inc

Animal rescue and care.

Animals
4
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
5
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
6
Humane Society of Yuma

To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.

Animals
7
Adopt-a-Stray

Dog rescue & adoption.

Animals
8
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals
9
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
10
Animal Samaritans

At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…

Animals
11
Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire

Helping pets and the people that care for them.

12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ll Dog Rescue. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALVARY BAPTIST SCHOOL — $791,375 · OtherCALVARY BAPTIST SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $385,988 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHELPING HANDS — $238,840 · OtherHELPING HANDSMAYO CLINIC FOR EDUCATIONRESEARCH — $230,200 · OtherMAYO CLINIC FOR EDUCATIONRESEARCHCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $114,000 · OtherCENTRAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $111,255 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $100,000 · OtherHERITAGE FOUNDATION — $94,399 · OtherNORTHERN HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH — $90,900 · Other+19 more — $209,302 · Other+19 moreSUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $240,032 · EducationSUMMIT CHRIS…ANNAPOLIS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $81,682 · EducationANNAPOLIS CH…MSHOOGY ANIMAL RESCUE — $108,431 · AnimalsANIMALKIND INC — $26,570 · AnimalsLL DOG RESCUE — $6,900 · AnimalsKOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC — $500 · HealthLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $200 · HealthJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $200 · Public BenefitSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $18 · Religion
Other$2,366,259Education$321,714Animals$141,901Health$700Public Benefit$200Religion$18

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $240,032 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetMSHOOGY ANIMAL RESCUE — $108,431 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNAPOLIS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $81,682 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANIMALKIND INC — $26,570 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetKOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds MSHOOGY ANIMAL RESCUE
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
  • Who funds ANNAPOLIS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation
  • Who funds ANIMALKIND INC
  • Who funds LL DOG RESCUE
  • Who funds KOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC
  • Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE

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.

Network for GoodDC8.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sugar Lakes 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    2report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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