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Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) at a glance

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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
1
States reached
$311k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $250k+1 grant · $311k
$311,492
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$311,492
CANINE COMPANIONS$5,000
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 (FY17–21, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Canine Companions: $1k → 9%Sky's The Limit Fund: $21k → 8%DC Dream Center: $3k → 14%DC Dream Center: $2k → 14%DC DREAM CENTER: $2k → 14%Sky's The Limit Fund: $1k → 8%DC DREAM CENTER: $2k → 14%DC DREAM CENTER: $1k → 14%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $3k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $3k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $3k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $3k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $2k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $2k → 8%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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137k · 12 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$137k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
+16%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther
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

  • ST
    SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $22k · revenue +143%
  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $17k · revenue +76%
  • BW
    BILL WILSON CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • SF
    Sutherland Family charitable Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • P
    PATHWAY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • CHARITY GLOBAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -15%
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
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
2
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
3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
5
David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace

The david lynch foundation for consciousness-based education and world peace (the "foundation or "dlf") is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2005. the foundation helps to prevent and eradicate the epidemic of trauma and toxic…

Philanthropy
6
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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7
Turning Point Community Programs

Turning point community programs strives to set the standard for individualized care that provides hope for recovery.

Human Services
8
The Center for Victims of Torture

The center for victims of torture works to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families and their communities and to stop torture worldwide.

International
9
John Muir Health

The mission of john muir is to improve the health of the communities we serve with quality and compassion.

Health
10
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
11
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
12
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 21 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $311,492 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSutherland Family charitable Fund: $100,000 · OtherSutherland Family charitable FundCONVERGENCE CENTER: $26,000 · OtherCONVERGENCE CENTER+6 more: $28,000 · Other+6 moreSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $22,000 · Human ServicesSKY'S THE LIMIT …CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANION…BILL WILSON CENTER: $14,000 · Human ServicesBILL WILSON CENT…MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $12,500 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S KITCHENDC Dreamcenter: $8,500 · Human ServicesDC DreamcenterCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesTEAM RUBICON INC: $8,000 · Public Safety & DisasterST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $200 · HealthThe Pachamama Alliance: $4,000 · EnvironmentNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$465,492Human Services$80,500Public Safety & Disaster$8,000Health$5,200Environment$4,000Philanthropy$2,500

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

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
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 SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BILL WILSON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds DC Dreamcenter ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT 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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sutherland Family Foundation (Formerly Wheel Works Foundation). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 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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