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The Sutcliffe Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$56kHuman Services$23kEmployment$16kAnimals$14kCrime & Legal$13kRecreation & Sports$10kReligion$5kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$529k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$10,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$5,000
WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS$3,000
BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION$3,000
RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY$3,000
ALPHAPOINTE$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELP GIVE HOPE: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$95k · 7 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$95k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+9%

Still filing today

71%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEmploymentAnimalsHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • SF
    SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    3× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +14%
  • WF
    WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +4%
  • MS
    MILITARY SPOUSE ASSOCIATION OF CAMP PENDLETON
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +217%

Funded once

  • LC
    LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • R9
    RESPECT 90 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +9%
  • HP
    HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -64%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Christian Mccaffrey Foundation

The foundation serves as a catalyst for the community and country by supporting whose who sacrifice daily for the benefit of many, especially our military men and women.

Human Services
2
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
3
Milagros Foundation

To make disciples of all nations by working with christian ministries in developing countries as they build up promising student leaders by providing university education and discipleship experiences.

Human Services
4
Marine Corps Association Foundation

To provide resources and support to sustain and expand programs and activities essential to the marine corps association's (mca) mission by engaging everyone inspired by the marine corps.

Arts & Culture
5
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc

See schedule othe marine corps scholarship foundation is the nation's oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children. founded in 1962, the marine corps scholarship foundation provides access to education for…

Education
6
The Michael Phelps Foundation

The organization's mission is to promote healthy, active lives, especially for children, primarily by expanding opportunities for participation in the sport of swimming.

Human Services
7
Troops First Foundation Incorporated

To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…

Public Benefit
8
Focus Marines Foundation

To educate and empower veterans to live an engaged and fulfilling life to the best of their ability after leaving the military.

Human Services
9
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
10
Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

Our vision is to reimagine everyday giving to help charities. our mission is to enable the world's leading online platforms to create opportunities for everyday charitable giving. in doing so, we ensure our programs are trustworthy,…

Philanthropy
11
Corporal Christopher Kelly Willis Foundation

Cckwf was formed to honor the memory of a beloved marine. we provide college scholarships to children of u.s. armed forces who have died or become disabled in a combat zone.

Philanthropy
12
Medal of Honor Foundation Inc

The Medal of Honor Foundation's mission and purpose is to provide funds to support the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In doing so, the Foundation supports the Society in advancing their mission to perpetuate the Medal of Honor's…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Respect 90 Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Mark Grace Foundation. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION — $14,000 · OtherBEST DEFENSE FOUNDATIONTOYS FOR JOY — $11,000 · OtherTOYS FOR JOYLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATIONRESPECT 90 FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherRESPECT 90 FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT — $5,000 · OtherJACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPTREDEEMER OF SAN DIEGO — $5,000 · OtherREDEEMER OF SAN DIEGOCITY OF INDEPENDENCE FIRE DEPT — $5,000 · OtherCITY OF INDEPENDENCE FIRE DEPTPRISON FELLOWSHIP ANGEL TREE — $3,000 · OtherHELP GIVE HOPE — $2,600 · OtherTHE MARK GRACE FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Other+1 more — $1,000 · OtherSANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $25,000 · EducationSANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSMILITARY SPOUSE ASSOCIATION OF CAMP PENDLETON — $15,000 · EducationMILITARY SPOUSE ASSOCIATION…WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC — $15,500 · EmploymentWORKSHOPS FOR …ALPHAPOINTE — $5,000 · EmploymentALPHAPOINTERANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $9,000 · AnimalsRANCHO CO…HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · AnimalsHELPING P…LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthHolly Scanlan Foundation Inc care of Timothy Scanlan — $5,000 · HealthFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$69,100Education$40,000Employment$20,500Animals$14,000Health$10,000Youth Development$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC — $15,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILITARY SPOUSE ASSOCIATION OF CAMP PENDLETON — $15,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESPECT 90 FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHELPING PAWS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetALPHAPOINTE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHolly Scanlan Foundation Inc care of Timothy Scanlan — $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARK GRACE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Sutcliffe 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Sutcliffe Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sutcliffe 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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