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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 it funds
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PROVIDENT CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
THE OUTREACH FOUNDATION$10,000
ALL NATIONS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF$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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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

Which US states its grants reach

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MO
TN
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FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 20% of Sugarbaker Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 18%.

Sugarbaker Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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.

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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
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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church Inc; 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

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

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

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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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