· Private foundation
Sutton Family Foundation
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.
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 $10k24 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| PHI KAPPA PSI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLANTATION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,203 |
| OTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| GLOBAL GLIMPSE | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| BEDFORD CITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER | $1,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CELIAC DISEASE | $1,500 |
| LAKE ERIE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY HOME | $1,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Sutton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 43% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 21 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TETHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +1%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +23%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CFCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -53%
- MIMANTUA INFERTILITY ASSOC RESOLV INCone grant, 2020 · $3k
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +14%
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.
The mission of ohio life sciences foundation is to accelerate bioscience discovery, innovation and commercialization of global value, driving economic growth, company attraction, improving workforce training and improved quality of life in…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.
The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
The arthritis foundation is boldly pursuing a cure for america's #1 cause of disability, while championing the fight against arthritis with life-changing resources, science, advocacy, and community connections.
The american college of rheumatology is an organization of and for physicians, health professionals, and scientists that advances rheumatology through programs of education, research, advocacy and practice support that foster excellence in…
Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 72 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 THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Plantation Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Global Glimpse ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LUNG TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Entrepreneurial Engagement Ohio ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLINS HOPE ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Greater Houston Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Sutton Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.