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Sunningdale Charitable Trust at a glance

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Sunningdale Charitable Trust

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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$47kHealth$28kYouth Development$28kArts & Culture$20kPublic Benefit$12kEducation$9kAnimals$6kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$149k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jenna's Promise$9,000
Boys & Girls Club of Burlington$3,000
Lyric Theatre$1,400
Florida Institute$1,000
Blair Academy$500
Individual grant recipient$213
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Chapel Hill Chauncy Hall School: $1k → 8%Help yourself Inc: $2k → 17%Robbinsdale United Church of Christ: $1k → 11%Peconic Public Broadcasting: $3k → 7%Oneida Comm Mansion House: $1k → 11%Florida Institute: $1k → 10%Veterinary Emergency Group: $1k → 16%Habitat for Humanity: $919 → 22%Envision: $4k → 14%Blair Academy: $1k → 7%Purple Hearts Reunited: $6k → 9%Jenna's Promise: $9k → 9%Vermont Food Bank: $13k → 9%Underhill Historical Society: $1k → 10%Chapel Hill Chauncy Hall School: $1k → 8%Help yourself Inc: $2k → 17%Memorial Congregational Church: $2k → 14%Purple Hearts Reunited: $4k → 9%Jenna's Promise: $8k → 9%Vermont Food Bank: $11k → 9%Lyric Theatre: $1k → 10%Memorial Congregation Church: $2k → 8%Purple Hearts Reunited: $3k → 9%Vermont Food Bank: $6k → 9%Sail Beyond Cancer: $3k → 10%Vermont Food Bank: $5k → 9%Sail Beyond Cancer: $3k → 10%Vermont Food Bank: $5k → 9%Boys & Girls Club of Burlington: $7k → 10%Vermont Food Bank: $5k → 9%Boys & Girls Club of Burlington: $6k → 10%Flynn Center for Performing Arts: $5k → 10%Flynn Theatre: $5k → 10%Boys & Girls Club of Burlington: $3k → 10%Boys & Girls Club of Burlington: $3k → 10%Boys & Girls Club of Burlington: $3k → 10%Boys & Girls Club of Burlington: $3k → 10%Flynn Theatre: $3k → 10%Boys & Girls Club of Burlington: $2k → 10%Jeff Cameron: $2k → 10%Boys & Girls Club of Burlington: $2k → 10%University of Vermont: $1k → 10%University of Vermont: $1k → 10%Sylvan Learning Center: $3k → 10%Central VT Trout Unlimited: $2k → 10%Stern Center: $2k → 10%Central VT Trout Unlimited: $2k → 10%Central VT Trout Unlimited: $2k → 10%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

VT
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
MD
GA
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$133k · 13 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$133k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-8%

Still filing today

62%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • VF
    VERMONT FOODBANK
    6× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +50%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +24%
  • SB
    SAIL BEYOND CANCER USA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • FC
    FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +23%
  • E
    Envision
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • PP
    PECONIC PUBLIC BROADCASTING
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +14%
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
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
2
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
3
Sail Beyond Cancer Vt Inc

Honoring those being challenged by cancer by harnessing the healing powers of wind, water and sail. providing free sailing excursions for cancer patients and their loved ones.

Philanthropy
4
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
9
Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.

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10
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
11
Wamc

Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…

Arts & Culture
12
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Stem Challenge Initiative. 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

15 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. 15 of the 39 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Flynn Theatre: $7,950 · OtherFlynn TheatreCentral VT Trout Unlimited: $5,310 · OtherCentral VT Trout UnlimitedEnvision: $4,000 · OtherEnvisionHelp yourself Inc: $3,500 · OtherHelp yourself IncPECONIC PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $3,175 · OtherPECONIC PUBLIC BROADCASTINGSylvan Learning Center: $2,500 · OtherStern Center: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherUniversity of Vermont: $2,000 · OtherCHAPEL HILL-CHAUNCY HALL SCHOOL: $2,000 · Other+18 more: $14,257 · Other+18 moreVERMONT FOODBANK: $45,075 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANKBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $27,850 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…Jenna Tatro Memorial Fund: $17,000 · HealthJenna Tatro …CASTING FOR RECOVERY: $950 · Health+1 more: $525 · HealthPURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC: $12,000 · Public BenefitFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD: $5,200 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC: $600 · Arts & CultureSAIL BEYOND CANCER USA INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBLAIR ACADEMY: $2,800 · EducationSTEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE: $200 · Education
Other$48,692Food & Nutrition$45,075Youth Development$27,850Health$18,475Public Benefit$12,000Arts & Culture$5,800Philanthropy$5,000Education$3,000

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 budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $45,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $27,850 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJenna Tatro Memorial Fund: $17,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC: $12,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAIL BEYOND CANCER USA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPECONIC PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $3,175 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $2,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPEL HILL-CHAUNCY HALL SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASTING FOR RECOVERY: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE: $200 over 1y, 2.2% 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 VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Jenna Tatro Memorial Fund ↗
  • Who funds PURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD ↗
  • Who funds SAIL BEYOND CANCER USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PECONIC PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CHAPEL HILL-CHAUNCY HALL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CASTING FOR RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
  • Who funds STEM CHALLENGE INITIATIVE ↗

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.

National Life Group C…The Vermont Community…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Life Group Charitable Foundation IncVT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Sunningdale Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunningdale Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 39 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home