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Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation)

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$316k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$311,492
Largest grant, FY2023
$311,492
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$316k50%
FY20226$121k67%
FY20219$20k0%
FY202011$25k18%
FY201912$20k25%
FY20189$19k0%
FY201710$42kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$414kHealth$41kHuman Services$29kCivil Rights$26kAnimals$17kFood & Nutrition$13kInternational$8kYouth Development$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sky's the Limit Fund$22,00023%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$17,00060%
Bill Wilson Center$14,00050%
Martha's Kitchen$12,50050%
DC Dreamcenter$8,50051%
Team Rubicon Inc$8,00040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,00050%
Charity Global Inc$4,00010%
The Pachamama Alliance$4,00020%
Sacred Heart Community Service$2,50010%
Head Strong Project Inc$20010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($465k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSky's the Limit Fund: $22,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBill Wilson Center: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMartha's Kitchen: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDC Dreamcenter: $8,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Global Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSacred Heart Community Service: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHead Strong Project Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation)

How much does Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) give?
Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) reported 2 grants totaling $316,492 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (73%), Health (7%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Sky's the Limit Fund ($22k), Canine Companions for Independence Inc ($17k), Bill Wilson Center ($14k).
Does Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) based?
Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) is based in CA.

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 21 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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