Kentucky · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 35
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Sutherland Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $464k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $452k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $444k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $488k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $463k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Educational Justice Inc | $326,000 | 5 | 38% |
| National Center for Families Learning Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Decode Project Inc | $135,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Muddy Sneakers Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Sowing Seeds with Faith Inc | $122,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Read to Succeed Asheville | $116,000 | 4 | 12% |
| TECH-Nique Inc | $115,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Young Authors Greenhouse Inc | $111,000 | 4 | 26% |
| Evolve502 Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Adelante Hispanic Achievers Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 11% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($216k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sutherland Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Sutherland Foundation Inc
- How much does The Sutherland Foundation Inc give?
- The Sutherland Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $464,927 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 35 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Sutherland Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Youth Development (18%), Science & Tech (5%).
- Who are The Sutherland Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Educational Justice Inc ($326k), National Center for Families Learning Inc ($150k), Decode Project Inc ($135k).
- Does The Sutherland Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sutherland Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sutherland Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Sutherland Foundation Inc based?
- The Sutherland Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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