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The Sutherland 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.

$465k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$1.4MYouth Development$436kScience & Tech$125kArts & Culture$107kPhilanthropy$106kHuman Services$84kCommunity Improvement$59kFood & Nutrition$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $353k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING$75,000
SOWING SEEDS WITH FAITH$37,500
ADELANTE HISPANIC ACHIEVERS$30,000
DECODE PROJECT$25,000
IVY PLUS ACADEMY$25,000
LINCOLN FOUNDATION$25,000
READ TO SUCCEED ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE$25,000
ST GEORGE'S SCHOLAR INSTITUTE INC$25,000
TECH-NIQUE$25,000
DENVER URBAN GARDENS$25,000
EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE LLC$25,000
MUDDY SNEAKERS$25,000
MUSICWORKS ASHEVILLE$25,000
PLAY COUSINS COLLECTIVE$20,000
LOUISVILLE YOUTH PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL$15,000
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 (FY21–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COLABORATIVE LA MILPA: $24k → 12%COLABORATIVE LA MILPA: $19k → 12%COLABORATIVE LA MILPA: $12k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $3k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $3k → 15%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES: $2k → 12%LA CASITA CENTER: $2k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $1k → 15%COLABORATIVE LA MILPA: $4k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $2k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $2k → 12%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $5k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 32 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
35

Total granted

$2.1M
$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+6%

Still filing today

88%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • EJ
    EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $326k · revenue +2% · 38% of their budget
  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +24%
  • MS
    Muddy Sneakers Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • C
    CIMA
    one grant, 2021 · $17k

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
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
2
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
3
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Environmental Learning for Kids

Cultivating a diverse community of leaders and environmental stewards by increasing outdoor equity.

Youth Development
6
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
7
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
8
Seeking Common Ground Inc

Building Bridges equip inclusive leaders with the skills they need to transform divides in their communities. Building Bridges two key program areas are Transform and Shift. Transform brings together diverse young people from Metro Denver…

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9
Ascend College Prep

Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…

Education
10
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc

Junior achievement - rocky mountain, inc. (ja) is critical for inspiring and preparing young people to own their economic success. in partnership with business and educators, ja immerses students in disruptive, real-world experiences,…

International
11
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
12
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is River City Drum Corp Cultural Arts Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr14%12%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr17%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%7%<5yr14%22%5–10yr18%40%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr17%6%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
13%
1,451/11,505

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.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 77 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
36/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC — $326,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INCNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC — $150,000 · EducationNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INCDECODE PROJECT INC — $135,000 · EducationDECODE PROJECT INCSowing Seeds with Faith Inc — $122,500 · EducationSowing Seeds with Faith IncREAD TO SUCCEED ASHEVILLE — $116,000 · EducationREAD TO SUCCEED ASHEVILLETECH-Nique Inc — $115,000 · EducationTECH-Nique IncYOUNG AUTHORS GREENHOUSE INC — $111,000 · EducationYOUNG AUTHORS GREENHOUSE INCWest End School Inc — $75,500 · EducationWest End School IncTEACH KENTUCKY INC — $53,000 · Education+8 more — $61,500 · EducationEVOLVE502 INC — $100,000 · OtherEVOLVE502 INCST GEORGE'S SCHOLAR INSTITUTE INC — $73,000 · OtherST GEORGE'S SCHOLAR INSTITUTE…PLAY COUSINS COLLECTIVE — $70,000 · OtherPLAY COUSINS COLLECTIVEMUSICWORKS ASHEVILLE — $62,850 · OtherMUSICWORKS ASHEVILLEArteria Collective — $43,000 · OtherArteria CollectiveUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $35,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOHORIZONS AT COLORADO ACADEMY — $28,500 · OtherIVY PLUS ACADEMY — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $25,000 · OtherDENVER URBAN GARDENS — $30,000 · Other+28 more — $138,683 · Other+28 moreMuddy Sneakers Inc — $125,000 · Science & TechTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $79,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $12,500 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $6,500 · PhilanthropyJEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyADELANTE HISPANIC ACHIEVERS INC — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOUISVILLE YOUTH PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL INC — $30,000 · Youth Development+3 more — $6,100 · Youth DevelopmentColaborativa La Milpa — $58,750 · Human ServicesCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC — $4,500 · Human Services+3 more — $5,500 · Human ServicesRIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC — $58,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ON RECORD — $6,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,265,500Other$631,033Science & Tech$125,000Philanthropy$123,500Youth Development$116,100Human Services$80,750Arts & Culture$64,500

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 budgetEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC — $326,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDECODE PROJECT INC — $135,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetMuddy Sneakers Inc — $125,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSowing Seeds with Faith Inc — $122,500 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetREAD TO SUCCEED ASHEVILLE — $116,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTECH-Nique Inc — $115,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetYOUNG AUTHORS GREENHOUSE INC — $111,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetEVOLVE502 INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetADELANTE HISPANIC ACHIEVERS INC — $80,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $79,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWest End School Inc — $75,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOLAR INSTITUTE INC — $73,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetPLAY COUSINS COLLECTIVE — $70,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetColaborativa La Milpa — $58,750 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetRIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC — $58,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetTEACH KENTUCKY INC — $53,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetArteria Collective — $43,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISVILLE YOUTH PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL INC — $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCULTIVATING THE YOUTH EXPERIENCE INC — $23,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC — $19,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $17,600 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colorado Soccer Foundation — $13,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD — $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER FOOD RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIRENE WORTHAM CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKL TRAINING SOLUTIONS — $2,600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLUFF LAKE NATURE CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALARAT COUNCIL — $2,500 over 1y, 36% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA CASITA CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASHEVILLE ON BIKES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…C E and S Foundation …The Community Foundat…Metro United Way IncJames Graham Brown Fo…Kosair Charities Comm…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Honorable Order of Ke…Sociable Weaver Found…Cralle Foundation Inc
The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository IncKY46.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Metro United Way Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc

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 Sutherland 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
30report 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

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 Sutherland Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Sutherland Foundation Inc 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 77 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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