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The Sumner Family Foundation Inc
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
- $10k–50k20 grants · $372k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $416k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIVE DIRECTLY | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ | $550,000 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE | $325,000 |
| BAIL PROJECTS INC | $300,000 |
| FREEWORLD | $300,000 |
| TEWKSBURY FIRST AID SQUAD | $215,000 |
| AHS HOSPITAL | $150,000 |
| NEWARK ACADEMY | $51,000 |
| GREAT SWAMP WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| AUTHORS LEAGUE FUND | $30,000 |
| DATAKIND INC | $30,000 |
| YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NJ AND EASTERN PA | $30,000 |
| MEDIA ART XPLORATION INC | $17,000 |
| OLDWICK FIRE COMPANY | $15,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +26% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- CFCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +28%
FREEDOM HOUSE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +41%- NANEWARK ACADEMY3× · 2022–2024 · $153k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IFINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +21%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.
New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
The Organization's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare for everyone.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
The advancement of psychology as a science, as a profession, and as a means of promoting health and human welfare in an atmosphere that supports the diversity of its members and society at large.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
See schedule oto promote, advance and encourage aviation and airport safety and security and the research and testing in the support thereof; to educate the public and users of the national air transportation system to the value and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Far Hills Country Day School and the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Conservation Foundation. 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 38 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 — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 37 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.
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- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DATAKIND INC ↗
- Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds OLDWICK FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOMO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Mane Stream Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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- Who funds PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS4HOPE ↗
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- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Millrace Foundation · The Tyler Foundation · The McJ Amelior Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Meerwarth Family Foundation · The Risor 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 Sumner Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
- CROSSROADS4HOPE — 1% of income from government
- Mane Stream Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.
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