· Private foundation
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| HUNTINGDON COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| WARREN WILSON COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| WOFFORD COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $20,000 |
| RUST COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| SEWANEETHE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $20,000 |
| RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BCBERRY COLLEGE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +36%
- RCROLLINS COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +72%
WOFFORD COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +52%
Funded once
Davidson Collegegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +46%- ECErskine College and Theological Seminarygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +39%
- WUWINTHROP UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $29k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University and the most unlike its peers is Wegiveashare 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 79 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 47 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RUST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Erskine College and Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CEPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ibm International Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Verizon Foundation · North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · The Columbus Phipps 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 Algernon Sydney Sullivan 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.
- Saint Leo University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
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.