· Private foundation
The Sunderland Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+64 grants · $174M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $25,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $25,000,000 |
| KC PEOPLE'S FUND | $24,750,000 |
| CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL | $20,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY - FOUNDATION | $10,000,000 |
| AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $4,000,000 |
| AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $4,000,000 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND ALBANY NY | $4,000,000 |
| SEATTLE FOUNDATION | $4,000,000 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND ALBANY NY | $4,000,000 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND ALBANY NY | $4,000,000 |
| IMPACT ASSETS INC | $4,000,000 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $3,872,555 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $3,000,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $48.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% 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 10% of The Sunderland 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
199 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 160 since wound down; 37 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M 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
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital5× · 2020–2024 · $58M · revenue +43%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $31M · revenue +7%
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL3× · 2020–2022 · $15M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALKone grant, 2021 · $10M · revenue +3%
- KCKANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $9.8M
- LCLAKEMARY CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $5.0M · revenue +24%
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.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.
Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.
Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truman Heartland Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Susan Laflesche Picotte Center. 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 39 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% 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.
673 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. 673 of the 869 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds KC PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds Kansas City University ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LAKEMARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds William Jewell College ↗
- Who funds LMH HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE BARSTOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY ↗
- Who funds Welcome House 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: Health Forward Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The H & R Block Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Ash Grove Charitable Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community 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 Sunderland 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.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- North Oklahoma County Mental Health Center — 6% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Clackamas Community College Foundation — 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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