· Private foundation
The Sukup 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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $725k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YSS OF NORTH IOWA | $500,000 |
| CHURCH BY THE GLADES | $200,000 |
| MISSION CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD | $200,000 |
| WEST FORK FOOD PANTRY | $125,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $100,000 |
| LUTHERAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TAU KAPPA EPSILON | $50,000 |
| ASCENSION ST VINCENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| WEST FORK HIGH SCHOOL - CHEER FUND | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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.
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 +79% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- WFWest Fork Food Pantry2× · 2021–2024 · $140k · revenue +79%
- LHLUTHERAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +108%
- MBMASTER BUILDER CENTER INC2× · 2021–2022 · $60k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- MMMERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONSone grant, 2017 · $200k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH PROGRAMSone grant, 2020 · $80k
- YFYSS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $80k
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.
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
For over twenty-three years, the st. paul center for biblical theology has promoted life-transforming catholic scripture study. founded by dr. scott hahn, the center equips priests, clergy, seminarians, catechists, and the laity to…
Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…
To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tau Kappa Epsilon. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 40 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 West Fork Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAU KAPPA EPSILON ↗
- Who funds MASTER BUILDER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Sukup 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.
- Els for Autism Foundation — 8% 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.