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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE LLC$25,000
MUSICWORKS ASHEVILLE$25,000
DECODE PROJECT$25,000
TECH-NIQUE$25,000
MUDDY SNEAKERS$25,000
DENVER URBAN GARDENS$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
PLAY COUSINS COLLECTIVE$20,000
LOUISVILLE YOUTH PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL$15,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $1k → 15%COLABORATIVE LA MILPA: $4k → 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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

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

+11%
+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 DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 77 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
37/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25,000 · OtherIVY PLUS ACADEMY: $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 ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetLOUISVILLE YOUTH PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 budgetYOUTH ON RECORD: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIRENE WORTHAM CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER FOOD RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetBALARAT COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 36% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUFF LAKE NATURE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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.

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 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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