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Sundry Charitable Trusts

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$589k
Granted FY2023
21
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$117k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$606kHuman Services$92kHealth$29kEducation$11kPhilanthropy$7kYouth Development$7kOther$0
02FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $318k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $236k
$16,409
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CH (CORUM)$117,198
ABINGTON HOME FOR FRIENDSINC TR$64,263
TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH$54,424
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH$49,937
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST$49,156
ST PATRICKS CHURCH-RECTOR$38,791
TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST$38,739
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF USA$28,030
HOME FOR ORPHANS OF ODD FELLOWS$16,612
MASONIC VILLAGES OF THE$16,409
Individual grant recipient$16,409
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST$16,385
UNITED METHODIST METRO MINISTRIES$16,000
HAWS AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$16,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$15,183
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 (FY17–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $5k → 7%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $317 → 7%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $289 → 7%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $284 → 7%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $283 → 7%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $267 → 7%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $261 → 7%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$774k · 23 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
0

Total granted

$774k
$0

Still filing today

17%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • TR
    TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH
    7× · 2017–2023 · $72k · revenue ×409
  • HF
    HOME FOR ORPHANS OF ODD FELLOWS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +112%
  • YT
    YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +244%

Funded once

    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
    04the grantee network

    4 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. 4 of the 23 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)
    3
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    4/4
    Grantees still filing
    3/4
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CH (CORUM): $149,263 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CH (CORUM)ABINGTON HOME FOR FRIENDSINC TR: $84,790 · OtherABINGTON HOME FOR FRIENDSINC TRTRINITY REFORMED CHURCH: $71,790 · OtherTRINITY REFORMED CHURCHFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST: $64,542 · OtherFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $57,498 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHST PATRICKS CHURCH-RECTOR: $51,168 · OtherST PATRICKS CHURCH-RECTORTRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $50,782 · OtherTRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF USA: $36,939 · Other+14 more: $200,175 · Other+14 moreYWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $7,032 · Human Services
    Other$766,947Human Services$7,032

    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 budgetHOME FOR ORPHANS OF ODD FELLOWS: $22,033 over 7y, 14% of budgetYWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $7,032 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY HOSPITAL: $7,032 over 7y, 0.6% 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 TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH ↗
    • Who funds HOME FOR ORPHANS OF ODD FELLOWS ↗
    • Who funds YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA ↗
    • Who funds MONTGOMERY HOSPITAL ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Sundry Charitable Trusts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sundry Charitable Trusts. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
      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 23 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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