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Sunnen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
- $250k+1 grant · $622k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF THE OZARKS | $622,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ST LOUIS | $175,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $95,000 |
| RANKEN JORDAN | $70,155 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD - SOUTHEAST | $60,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $50,000 |
| CASA OF ST LOUIS | $30,000 |
| HOME SWEET HOME | $30,000 |
| L'ARCHE ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
| PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES (RAINBOW VILLAGE) | $25,000 |
| KIDS IN THE MIDDLE | $20,000 |
| WYMAN | $15,000 |
| READY READERS | $15,000 |
| BROOKHAVEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SHERWOOD FOREST | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $679k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OFOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $383k · revenue +13%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $323k · revenue +26%- TRThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children6× · 2019–2024 · $284k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- GRGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +10%
- RTRanken Technical Collegegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $28k · revenue +30%
- HHHAVEN HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +55%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
Children's services
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids in the Middle Inc and the most unlike its peers is Earth Sangha. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 59 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC ↗
- Who funds LARCHE ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds FOURCHE VALLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CU INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR RESPIRATORY EQUITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds Earth Sangha ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PRISM INC ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds BURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc · Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pott Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pershing Charitable Trust
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 Sunnen 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.
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc — 3% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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