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Suggs Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$834k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$209k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$2.3MEducation$1.6MInternational$420kFood & Nutrition$385kPublic Safety & Disaster$254kCivil Rights$246kAnimals$245kHealth$228kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $481k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $314k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$209,112
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$52,760
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$52,278
MANNA CONEJO VALLEY FOOD BANK$40,200
FOOD SHARE INC$40,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$40,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$26,140
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$26,139
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$26,024
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$25,804
MONGOBAY$25,690
KELLOGG COMM COLLEGE FOUND$15,000
AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC$15,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER LA$10,691
MANNA FOOD PANTRY PENSACOLA FL$10,310
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%ANIMAL SERVICES FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY: $10k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $6k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $6k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $4k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $4k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $4k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $3k → 10%MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $5k → 14%MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $5k → 14%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

AK
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AR
TN
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 63 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
18

Total granted

$3.8M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

59%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    7× · 2017–2024 · $433k · revenue +104%
  • AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
    8× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +198%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $161k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -74%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -25%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
8
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
11
The Peregrine Fund Inc

To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.

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12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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

51 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. 51 of the 90 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
36/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,505,166 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $226,274 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $147,175 · OtherMONGOBAY: $139,574 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $125,000 · OtherMANNA CONEJO VALLEY FOOD BANK: $121,900 · Other+58 more: $1,252,345 · Other+58 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $775,933 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONWilliam Marsh Rice University: $432,552 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice Universi…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $166,626 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUN…CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $126,211 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERS…+1 more: $500 · EducationSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $220,913 · EnvironmentSIERRA CL…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $161,092 · EnvironmentNATURAL R…THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $90,590 · EnvironmentTHE CONSE…MOLOKAI LAND TRUST: $40,000 · EnvironmentMOLOKAI L…+2 more: $17,032 · EnvironmentDIRECT RELIEF: $121,420 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $102,744 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $90,620 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalFOOD SHARE INC: $125,628 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $50,031 · AnimalsAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION: $15,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $15,000 · AnimalsPASSION FOR PITTIES: $8,961 · Animals+3 more: $6,090 · AnimalsTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $72,000 · Arts & CultureHUI HOOLANA: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,517,434Education$1,501,822Environment$529,627International$414,784Food & Nutrition$125,628Animals$95,082Arts & Culture$92,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,505,166 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $775,933 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $432,552 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $220,913 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $166,626 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $161,092 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $147,175 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $126,211 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC: $125,628 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $121,420 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $102,744 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $90,620 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $90,590 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT PERSONAL SAFETY INC: $90,000 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $73,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $72,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $50,031 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOLOKAI LAND TRUST: $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL SERVICES FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY: $36,660 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetBUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC: $28,652 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $22,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUI HOOLANA: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAppamada Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL BROADCASTING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASSION FOR PITTIES: $8,961 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION FOR WILD FLOWERS AND NATIVE PLANTS INC: $6,032 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetArielles Light: $5,400 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $5,151 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHOUSAND OAKS HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTER CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $4,981 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA PAULA ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER INC: $3,090 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $1,250 over 5y, 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT PERSONAL SAFETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOLOKAI LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL SERVICES FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds HUI HOOLANA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION 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.

Conrad N Hilton FoundationCA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Suggs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suggs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 90 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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