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Sugarbaker 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.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
$7,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNTAIN WEST CHURCH OF GOD$25,000
HEALTH GOES GLOBAL$23,440
SPECIAL LEARNING CENTER$22,530
THE OUTREACH FOUNDATION$11,000
ALL NATIONS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
PROVIDENT CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF$10,000
THE OUTREACH FOUNDATION$10,000
OXFAM AMERICA$9,000
YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURG$7,500
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$7,500
MOUNTAIN WEST CHURCH OF GOD$7,000
WIKS-USA INC$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$4,500
SPECIAL LEARNING CENTER$4,500
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OXFAM AMERICA: $9k → 16%HELPING HANDS: $4k → 11%MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%COLUMBIAN VOL LADIES INC MIAMI: $3k → 15%SPECIAL LEARNING CENTER: $23k → 10%GATEWAY HOUSING SERVICE PROJECT: $2k → 11%THE OUTREACH FOUNDATION: $11k → 4%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5k → 21%MOUNTAIN WEST CHURCH OF GOD: $25k → 14%ZEUS'S RESCUES: $2k → 23%PROVIDENT CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ALL NATIONS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 15%SPECIAL LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 10%HEALTH GOES GLOBAL: $23k → 11%THE OUTREACH FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%MOUNTAIN WEST CHURCH OF GOD: $7k → 14%CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURG: $8k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF: $10k → 11%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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 20% of Sugarbaker Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 18% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Sugarbaker Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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.

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Mission of Mercy
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Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
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International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
5
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
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Church World Service Inc

Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.

International
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World Orphans

World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…

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Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
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Tri-State Christian Academy Inc

Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…

Education
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The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc

The christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. cbn's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. the mission of cbn and its affiliated organizations is to…

Religion
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World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
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Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

10 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. 10 of the 18 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)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNTAIN WEST CHURCH OF GOD — $32,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN WEST CHURCH OF GODHEALTH GOES GLOBAL — $23,440 · OtherHEALTH GOES GLOBALOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC — $21,000 · OtherOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF — $10,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OFALL NATIONS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherALL NATIONS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHYMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURG — $7,500 · OtherYMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGHELPING HANDS — $4,340 · Other+3 more — $7,550 · Other+3 moreCAPITAL CITY AREA COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES — $27,030 · EducationCAPITAL CITY AREA COUNC…Provident Education Foundation — $10,000 · EducationProvident Education Fou…OXFAM-AMERICA INC — $9,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AME…WIKS-USA INC — $5,000 · InternationalWIKS-USA …MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · InternationalMEDICAL B…CARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $7,500 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $4,500 · ReligionLEGACY MISSION VILLAGE — $1,500 · Human Services
Other$115,830Education$37,030International$15,000Arts & Culture$7,500Religion$4,500Human Services$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAPITAL CITY AREA COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES — $27,030 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC — $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetProvident Education Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKS-USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZEUS' RESCUES INC — $2,210 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEGACY MISSION VILLAGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION — $1,000 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.

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.

Everett D and Geneva V SugarbakerMO20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Everett D and Geneva V Sugarbaker · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Sugarbaker 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sugarbaker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sugarbaker 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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