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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.

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$12k
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 2024.

Education$153kHealth$88kCrime & Legal$30kHuman Services$29kFood & Nutrition$18kPhilanthropy$14kArts & Culture$12kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE SALVATION ARMY$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE$1,000
LAKE ERIE FOUNDATION$1,000
HOLY FAMILY HOME$1,000
BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–20, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2k → 12%GATHERING PLACE: $300 → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $300 → 17%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

IL
SD
IN
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Sutton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 43%.

Sutton Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 40 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
24

Total granted

$316k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+14%

Still filing today

53%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TE
    THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +1%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +23%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CF
    CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -53%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +14%
  • BC
    BEDFORD CITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Ohio Life Sciences Foundation

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…

Health
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

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…

Education
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
4
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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.

Health
5
Breakthrough T1D

Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.

Health
6
American Lung Association

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.

Health
7
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

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.

Health
8
Brightfocus Foundation

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…

Health
9
Arthritis Foundation Inc

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.

Health
10
American College of Rheumatology Inc

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…

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11
American Institute for Cancer Research

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…

Health
12
American Geophysical Union

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…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CELIAC DISEASE: $20,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CELIAC DISEASEPlantation Community Foundation Inc: $11,303 · OtherPlantation Community Foundation IncOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAITON: $11,000 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAITONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $11,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYNATIONAL INFERTILITY ASSOCIATION: $8,500 · OtherNATIONAL INFERTILITY ASSOCIATIONIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherBEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,500 · OtherINDIANA DONOR NETWORK: $6,000 · OtherEntrepreneurial Engagement Ohio: $5,500 · Other+43 more: $70,009 · Other+43 moreTHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY: $71,500 · EducationTHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI …OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $39,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONGlobal Glimpse: $10,000 · EducationGlobal GlimpseBEDFORD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $8,500 · EducationBEDFORD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION+1 more: $2,015 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $13,523 · HealthAmerican …THE LUNG TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthTHE LUNG …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 · HealthST JUDE C…CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthCELIAC DI…BONE HEALTH AND OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $750 · HealthHOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA: $24,250 · Crime & LegalHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropyOTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE: $600 · Human ServicesUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $4,500 · Public Benefit
Other$157,812Education$131,015Health$29,773Crime & Legal$24,250Philanthropy$13,500Human Services$7,100Public Benefit$4,500

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 budgetTHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY: $71,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA: $24,250 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $13,523 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPlantation Community Foundation Inc: $11,303 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGlobal Glimpse: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEDFORD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LUNG TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetBEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEntrepreneurial Engagement Ohio: $5,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetOTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $4,324 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER: $2,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLINS HOPE: $2,015 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACK TO THE WILD INC: $1,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBONE HEALTH AND OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDERS UNLIMITED INC: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN BONE HEALTH: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $215 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA COMMUNITY THEATRE: $100 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COLINS HOPE ↗

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…Greater Houston Commu…AbbVie FoundationBaird Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…
The Cleveland FoundationOH16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sutton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sutton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 72 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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