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The Sumas Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Sumas Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$385k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$396kReligion$108kPublic Safety & Disaster$82kHuman Services$43kFood & Nutrition$40kYouth Development$21kRecreation & Sports$20kCommunity Improvement$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $206k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$407k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST NICHOLAS CONSTANTINE & HELEN GREEK CH$40,000
NJ SHARING NETWORK FOUNDATION$40,000
AUTISM SPEAKS INC$40,000
THE VALERIE FUND$40,000
THE AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSC$15,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY$10,500
JEWISH SERV FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY$10,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$10,000
COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY$7,000
TED R GREEN FOUNDATION$7,000
EMBRELLA INC$5,000
FLANDERS FIRE RESCUE CO #1$5,000
THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING$5,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$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 (FY20–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%LUV MICHAEL INC: $2k → 6%SONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $5k → 17%Wounded Warrior Project Inc: $3k → 14%NorEasterNicks Rainy Day Project: $1k → 8%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%HAYDEN'S HEART INC: $1k → 7%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 12%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 12%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 12%Weequahic Park Multi Purpose Center: $2k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $7k → 10%THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY: $1k → 10%THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $2k → 16%THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $2k → 16%THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $2k → 16%ELIZABETH COALITION TO HOUSE THE HOMELES: $2k → 10%THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $1k → 16%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

NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$721k · 22 repeat orgs$431k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
106

Total granted

$721k
$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+2%

Still filing today

82%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & 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

  • TV
    THE VALERIE FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +108%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +1%
  • TR
    Ted R Green Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • NS
    NJ SHARING NETWORK
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • CH
    CONSTANTINE & HELEN GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • CD
    CONNIE DWYER BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -29%
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
Family Resource Network Inc

The family resource network (frn), mission is to provide a personalized, humancentric approach to helping families with disabilities find the right resources and support for every step of their journey.

Human Services
2
Friends Health Connection a New Jersy Nonprofit Corporation

Connectiong loved ones battling the same condition for mutual support

Human Services
3
Autism Family Services of Nj

Autism family services of new jersey is dedicated to ensuring a better quality of life for individuals with autism and their families. our skilled team works in partnership with families to address daily challenges, foster communication,…

Human Services
4
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
5
Visiting Nurse Assn of Central Jersey Personal Care

Visiting nurse association health group, inc. and affiliates, which includes the organization, are organizations dedicated to helping individuals and families in achieving their best level of well-being by providing compassionate,…

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6
The New York Gracie Square Hospital Inc

Our mission is to provide the highest-quality, state-of-the-art mental health and chemical dependency treatment in a warm, healing environment. our caring, compassionate team prepares our patients to return to their families and…

Health
7
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.

Human Services
8
Visiting Nurse Service of New York Home Care Ii

Vns health home care is part of one of the nation's largest nonprofit home and community-based health care organizations. we help people live, age, and heal where they feel most comfortable. please refer to schedule o for additional…

Health
9
New Community Health Care Inc

The organization was incorporated to oversee the operations of a 180 bed extended health care facility located in newark, new jersey. new community health care, inc. (the "organization") was incorporated in the state of new jersey in 1983…

Health
10
Carelink Community Support Services Nj

Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.

Health
11
Care Plus Nj Inc

This agency is dedicated to excellence in mental healthcare and has commitment to life- long support needed by individuals and their families to ensure that they achieve their full potential to improve the quality of their lives.

Health
12
Epilepsy Services of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Epilepsy services of new jersey (esnj) is a state-wide, non-profit charitable agency dedicated to helping to improve the quality of life for people affected by epilepsy and their loved ones. esnj will ensure that people with seizures find…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Atlantic County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Weequahic Park Multi Purpose C. 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

78 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. 78 of the 167 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
39/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST NICHOLAS CONSTANTINE & HELEN GREEK CH: $125,000 · OtherST NICHOLAS CONSTANTINE & HELEN GREEK CHTHE VALERIE FUND: $81,000 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUNDMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $40,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER+118 more: $391,950 · Other+118 moreAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $160,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INCTHE SHARING NETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $140,500 · HealthTHE SHARING NETWORK FOUNDATION INC+19 more: $62,250 · Health+19 moreCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $40,500 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesElizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesWEEQUAHIC PARK MULTI PURPOSE C: $2,000 · Human ServicesSONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesLUV MICHAEL INC: $2,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesTed R Green Foundation: $22,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 · Community ImprovementTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsGREATER LIFE INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW JERSEY CAMP JAYCEE INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsJewish Community Center of Atlantic County: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE FOOD INDUSTRY INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY: $6,000 · PhilanthropyBACKPACKS FOR LIFE INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyLEONID FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$637,950Health$362,750Food & Nutrition$47,500Human Services$44,500Community Improvement$27,000Recreation & Sports$23,500Philanthropy$21,500

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 budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHARING NETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $140,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $81,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $40,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTed R Green Foundation: $22,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FOOD INDUSTRY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmbrellaInc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF ATLANTIC COUNTY INC: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LIFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIntegrity Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY CAMP JAYCEE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Devereux Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERNARDSVILLE FIRE COMPANY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMOVE OVER BREAST CANCER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHeartworks Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWEEQUAHIC PARK MULTI PURPOSE C: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMINETTE GROSSO MCKENNA FOUNDATION INC MINETTES ANGELS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBACKPACKS FOR LIFE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMY KOTA BEAR INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFOREVER LOGAN STRONG: $2,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetBLOOMINGDALE REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCAMP BRAVEHEARTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUTCAST RESCUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKINGS CRUSADE: $2,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Columbia Bank Foundat…The Hyde and Watson F…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Mondelez Internationa…Investors Foundation …Chubb Charitable Foun…The Robert Wood Johns…Pseg Foundation IncCitizens Philanthropi…Verizon FoundationOceanfirst Foundation
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ25.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Mondelez International Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Oceanfirst 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 The Sumas Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sumas Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Center for Family Services: 73% of income from government
  • Integrity Incorporated: 16% of income from government
  • My Kota Bear Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Arc of Essex County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Arc of Atlantic County Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 167 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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