· Private foundation
Bob Sullivan Memorial 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Quincy College Scholarship | $5,000 |
| Bryant University | $3,000 |
| Friends of South Shore Hospital | $3,000 |
| University of Massachusetts - Amherst | $3,000 |
| University of Connecticut | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Eastern Michigan university | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Learning Works | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,382 |
| University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| PAT GREENE | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +41%- BUBRYANT UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +18%
MERRIMACK COLLEGE2× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- WIWELLSPRING INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +26%
- GNGERMANTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER - YMCAone grant, 2017 · $5k
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
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…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Regis college, through education in the arts, sciences, and professions empowers women and men to challenge themselves academically, to serve and to lead. a catholic college, regis is a diverse and welcoming community guided by the values…
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.
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,…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bob Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bob Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Friendship Home Inc: 65% of income from government
- Norwich University: 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 2% of income from government
- Merrimack College: 2% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc: 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
- Springfield College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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