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Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation

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.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$274kFood & Nutrition$115kHuman Services$113kYouth Development$110kCommunity Improvement$89kRecreation & Sports$65kHealth$62kInternational$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Pawtucket Foundation$18,000
Rhode Island College$15,500
Reach out and Read RI$10,000
Boston University$7,000
Pawtucket Public Schools$5,000
Brown University$2,500
Vermont State University$2,500
City of Pawtucket$2,500
Emerson College$2,500
Mercy Mount Country Day School$2,300
Clark University$2,000
Connecticut College$2,000
Davidson College$2,000
University of Kentucky$2,000
Worcester Polytechnic Institute$2,000
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA of Pawtucket: $15k → 7%YMCA of Pawtucket: $15k → 7%YMCA of Pawtucket: $15k → 7%YMCA of Pawtucket: $3k → 7%Children's Friend: $5k → 14%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

VT
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
KY
NC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$714k · 33 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
46

Total granted

$714k
$194k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+8%

Still filing today

64%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementInternationalArts & CultureFood & 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

  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET
    5× · 2021–2025 · $99k · revenue +50%
  • MCAULEY CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +15%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $48k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +8%
  • WC
    World Central Kitchen Incorporated
    one grant, 2022 · $29k
  • FR
    Feed RI
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
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
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
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Roger Williams University School of Law

The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Rhode Island Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Flower District. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 92 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCAULEY CORPORATION: $55,000 · OtherMCAULEY CORPORATIONRI Community Food Bank: $50,000 · OtherRI Community Food BankPawtucket Public Schools: $45,000 · OtherPawtucket Public SchoolsRI Hospital Foundation: $40,000 · OtherRI Hospital FoundationRhode Island College: $35,500 · OtherRhode Island CollegeWorld Central Kitchen Incorporated: $29,253 · OtherWorld Central Kitchen IncorporatedCITY YEAR INC: $23,000 · OtherBlackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc: $20,000 · Other+49 more: $140,803 · Other+49 moreBOOKS ARE WINGS: $33,024 · EducationBOOKS ARE WINGSREACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND: $33,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND RE…PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE PUBLI…JOURNEYS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY: $10,000 · EducationJOURNEYS WITHIN …INSPIRING MINDS: $7,500 · EducationINSPIRING MINDSEMERSON COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGETHE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Education+13 more: $26,750 · Education+13 morePAWTUCKET FOUNDATION: $87,500 · Community ImprovementPAWTUCKET FOUND…PAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN: $16,566 · Community ImprovementPAWTUCKET SOUP …BROWN UNIVERSITY: $11,500 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSIT…THE BOTTOM LINE INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BOTTOM LINE…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET: $98,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…+2 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC: $47,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $5,000 · Human ServicesDIRECT RELIEF: $29,512 · InternationalAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $9,928 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $8,500 · InternationalFIRSTWORKS: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $7,000 · Arts & CultureOLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$438,556Education$132,774Community Improvement$125,566Youth Development$100,500Human Services$52,500International$47,940Arts & Culture$40,000

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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET: $98,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPAWTUCKET FOUNDATION: $87,500 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetMCAULEY CORPORATION: $55,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOOKS ARE WINGS: $33,024 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND: $33,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFIRSTWORKS: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $29,512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBlackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN: $16,566 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeed RI: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOURNEYS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTENDERFEET FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $9,928 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINSPIRING MINDS: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACE Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEDESIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO ADVANCE CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMPOWERMENT FACTORY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $3,268 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONWARD WE LEARN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrantmakers Council of Rhode Island: $1,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HAND UP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $1,000 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 Rhode Island Comm…United Way of Rhode I…The Champlin Foundati…Bristol County Saving…Amica Companies Found…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…Centreville Savings B…Harborone Foundation …Citizens Charitable F…The Nordson Corporati…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Washington Trust Co C…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI46.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn

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 Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report 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.
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How do I get to Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation?

Find your warmest path to Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation 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 92 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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