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The Sunderland Foundation at a glance

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The Sunderland Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$25M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$331MEducation$192MPhilanthropy$140MArts & Culture$82MHuman Services$56MHousing & Shelter$34MFood & Nutrition$24MCommunity Improvement$20MOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+20 grants · $102M
$2,000,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$927M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION$25,000,000
KC PEOPLE'S FUND$25,000,000
IMPACT ASSETS INC$5,000,000
AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION$5,000,000
GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND ALBANY NY$5,000,000
GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND ALBANY NY$5,000,000
GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000,000
GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000,000
SEATTLE FOUNDATION$5,000,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$5,000,000
AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION$3,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION$2,321,057
IMPACT ASSETS INC$2,000,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$2,000,000
AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION$500,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAKEMARY CENTER: $5.0M → 7%NORTHEAST KANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $500k → 14%SYNERGY SERVICES: $295k → 8%THE HOPE CENTER: $1.0M → 15%IOLA THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $300k → 14%JOY MEADOWS: $250k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY STJOSEPH: $1.3M → 15%STARKEY INCORPORATED: $500k → 16%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES: $450k → 14%SAFEHOME: $475k → 5%WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $900k → 16%FRIENDS OF JOHNSON COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL SUPPORTS: $400k → 5%FRIENDS OF JOHNSON COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL SUPPORTS: $261k → 5%MOTHERS REFUGE: $1.5M → 15%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $1.6M → 15%CENTER OF GRACE: $1.4M → 5%CENTER OF GRACE: $250k → 5%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $1.0M → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $1.0M → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $1.0M → 15%MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION: $360k → 15%EPEC - THE GROOMING PROJECT: $250k → 15%TNC COMMUNITY: $250k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $500k → 15%DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY CIVIC VENTURES: $350k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $250k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER: $1.0M → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER: $250k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $3.0M → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $1.0M → 15%AGAPE PAMOJA INC: $280k → 15%CAMP FOSTER YMCA: $350k → 7%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $250k → 13%ROADS TO INDEPENDENCE: $250k → 9%HASTINGS FAMILY YMCA: $450k → 11%HELPING HANDS PROJECT ORGANIZATION: $275k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $750k → 9%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $500k → 12%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $300k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $400k → 14%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $300k → 16%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $300k → 17%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN: $500k → 13%BOYSTOWN: $3.0M → 12%JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS- NEBRASKA: $500k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA: $300k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $1.5M → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $500k → 12%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

WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
MD
KS
AR
SC
DC
OK
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of The Sunderland Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Sunderland Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.1% 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$679M · 199 repeat orgs$261M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

199 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 187 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

199
655

Total granted

$679M
$256M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+3%

Still filing today

81%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    6× · 2020–2025 · $58M · revenue +43%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $31M · revenue +7%
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15M · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK
    one grant, 2021 · $10M · revenue +3%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $9.8M
  • AK
    AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue -58% · 56% of their budget
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
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
2
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
3
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

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…

Health
4
Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center

To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.

Health
5
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
6
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
7
Clark Community Mental Health Center

Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.

Health
8
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

—
9
Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement
10
Council Apartments Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Cornerhouse

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosteradopt Connect Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

674 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. 674 of the 870 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.

91
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
98
Early backer (in before they grew)
669/674
Grantees still filing
387/674
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $184,134,123 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY - FOUNDATION: $51,190,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY - FOUNDATION+99 more: $206,580,099 · Other+99 moreKC PEOPLE'S FUND: $50,000,000 · PhilanthropyKC PEOPLE'S FUNDGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $38,150,000 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISED PHILAN…Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: $34,500,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Com…IMPACTASSETSINC: $27,500,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINCAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $20,800,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable …SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $17,750,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION+2 more: $8,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $31,234,821 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $12,000,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVER…Kansas City University: $11,000,000 · EducationKansas City U…Metropolitan Community College Foundation: $10,245,000 · EducationMetropolitan …ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $6,000,000 · EducationWilliam Jewell College: $4,500,000 · Education+28 more: $39,396,711 · Education+28 moreThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $58,125,000 · HealthThe Children'…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15,000,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILD…SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES: $5,500,000 · HealthAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $5,000,000 · HealthLMH HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 · Health+14 more: $23,850,000 · Health+14 moreNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $11,625,000 · Arts & CultureUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $7,000,000 · Arts & CultureSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,500,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $1,351,600 · Arts & CultureCOSMOSPHERE INC: $1,250,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,947,500 · Arts & CultureLAKEMARY CENTER INC: $5,000,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $4,000,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $3,200,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $3,000,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF GRACE INC: $1,750,000 · Human ServicesAD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $1,600,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $1,500,000 · Human ServicesMothers Refuge: $1,500,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $1,065,000 · Human ServicesFriends of Jcds Inc: $1,043,117 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $1,000,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,400,000 · Human ServicesHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $2,400,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $2,300,000 · Housing & ShelterRESTORATION HOUSE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $2,240,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER KC: $2,150,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY: $1,600,000 · Housing & ShelterCHWC INC: $1,200,000 · Housing & ShelterMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $1,000,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOODS INC: $775,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY: $750,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LINC: $700,000 · Housing & ShelterCity Union Mission: $700,000 · Housing & ShelterELKHORN VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $625,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$441,904,222Philanthropy$196,700,000Education$114,376,532Health$111,475,000Arts & Culture$36,674,100Human Services$28,558,117Housing & Shelter$16,440,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $58,125,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetKC PEOPLE'S FUND: $50,000,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $38,150,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $34,500,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $31,234,821 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $27,500,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $20,800,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $17,750,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15,000,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $12,000,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $11,625,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetKansas City University: $11,000,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMetropolitan Community College Foundation: $10,245,000 over 3y, 81% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $10,000,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK: $10,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $7,000,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $6,000,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES: $5,500,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $5,000,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetLAKEMARY CENTER INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $4,600,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $4,500,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $4,000,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetTHE BARSTOW SCHOOL: $4,000,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetLMH HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY: $3,750,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetWelcome House Inc: $3,550,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $3,500,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetKIDSTLC INC: $3,475,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $3,396,014 over 3y, 30% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $3,200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALPHAPOINTE: $3,065,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC: $3,000,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $3,000,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $3,000,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $3,000,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCOMPASS HEALTH INC: $3,000,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,750,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,500,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetNORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC: $2,500,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST: $2,500,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetKansas 4-H Foundation Inc: $2,400,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $2,400,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $2,300,000 over 3y, 8.3% 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 Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds KC PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
  • Who funds Kansas City University ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKEMARY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
  • Who funds William Jewell College ↗
  • Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE BARSTOW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LMH HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY ↗

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.

Health Forward Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…United Way of Greater…The H & R Block Found…Je and le Mabee Found…William T Kemper Foun…Ash Grove Charitable …Marion and Henry Bloc…R a Long Foundation 6…Menorah Heritage Foun…The Kansas City Royal…Greater Kansas City C…
Health Forward FoundationMO116.7× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
80report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Sunderland Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sunderland Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 870 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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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home