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Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation at a glance

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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.

$451k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.9MScience & Tech$6kInternational$3kFood & Nutrition$1kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $440k
$20,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEREA COLLEGE$20,000
MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE$20,000
RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE$20,000
CONVERSE COLLEGE$20,000
HUNTINGDON COLLEGE$20,000
SEWANEETHE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH$20,000
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE$20,000
DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE$20,000
WOFFORD COLLEGE$20,000
LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE$20,000
LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY$20,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$20,000
ROLLINS COLLEGE$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS$20,000
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY$20,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WINTHROP UNIVERSITY: $29k → 8%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $47k → 10%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $35k → 15%ERSKINE COLLEGE: $33k → 17%COKER COLLEGE: $28k → 21%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $47k → 13%HUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $25k → 18%SEWANEETHE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $44k → 13%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $21k → 20%ELON UNIVERSITY: $33k → 13%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $29k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $29k → 15%SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $28k → 15%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $34k → 16%LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE: $25k → 21%ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $25k → 24%BRENAU COLLEGE: $27k → 12%BERRY COLLEGE: $115k → 15%DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $28k → 17%PINEY WOODS COUNTRY LIFE SCHOOL: $23k → 10%RUST COLLEGE: $29k → 19%RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $38k → 5%MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE: $30k → 8%FERRUM COLLEGE: $32k → 13%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%BLUEFIELD COLLEGE: $24k → 18%HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $42k → 20%BEREA COLLEGE: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $23k → 26%ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $31k → 29%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $20k → 15%COKER COLLEGE: $20k → 21%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $20k → 13%HUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $20k → 18%SEWANEETHE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $43k → 13%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 20%WARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $34k → 12%ELON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 13%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $20k → 15%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $20k → 16%LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE: $20k → 21%BRENAU COLLEGE: $24k → 12%BERRY COLLEGE: $20k → 15%DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $20k → 17%RUST COLLEGE: $20k → 19%SEWANEETHE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $27k → 13%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $41k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 30 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
11

Total granted

$3.7M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

90%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +36%
  • RC
    ROLLINS COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +72%
  • WOFFORD COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • Davidson Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +46%
  • EC
    Erskine College and Theological Seminarygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +39%
  • WU
    WINTHROP UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $29k
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
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
LaGrange College

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…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
6
Greensboro College

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.

Education
7
University of Lynchburg

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…

Education
8
Greenville College

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.

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
11
University of the South

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…

Education
12
Carleton College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
31/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BERRY COLLEGE INC: $221,000 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE INCROLLINS COLLEGE: $192,428 · EducationROLLINS COLLEGERANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $153,190 · EducationElon University: $150,467 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $150,416 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $149,680 · EducationWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $148,880 · EducationGUILFORD COLLEGE: $148,710 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $145,870 · EducationMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY: $145,465 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC: $144,375 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $144,150 · EducationRUST COLLEGE: $143,800 · EducationDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $143,250 · EducationBEREA COLLEGE: $139,964 · EducationLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $139,878 · EducationHUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $139,650 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $137,640 · EducationLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $135,752 · Education+13 more: $442,794 · Education+13 moreSEWANEETHE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $200,179 · OtherSEWANEETHE UNIVE…WOFFORD COLLEGE: $156,101 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGEBRENAU COLLEGE: $146,421 · OtherBRENAU COLLEGEST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $29,874 · OtherWINTHROP UNIVERSITY: $28,941 · Other+8 more: $21,500 · OtherCEPA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · InternationalWEGIVEASHARE Inc: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$3,317,359Other$583,016International$3,000Philanthropy$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $221,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $192,428 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $156,101 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $153,190 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetElon University: $150,467 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $150,416 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $149,680 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $148,880 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE: $148,710 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $145,870 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY: $145,465 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC: $144,375 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $144,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRUST COLLEGE: $143,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $143,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $139,964 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $139,878 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $139,650 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $137,640 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $135,752 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOKER UNIVERSITY: $82,912 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $61,784 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $46,993 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFERRUM COLLEGE: $37,353 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetErskine College and Theological Seminary: $32,865 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $29,874 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $27,570 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY: $23,820 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPiney Woods School: $23,497 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT LEO UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEPA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Lettie Pate Whitehead…Council of Independen…National Collegiate A…Foundation for the Ca…Ibm International Fou…Tulsa Community Found…The Cannon Foundation…Triangle Community Fo…Folds of Honor Founda…Verizon FoundationNorth Carolina Indepe…The Columbus Phipps F…
Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation IncGA28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Saint Leo University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 47 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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By state
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