· Private foundation
Charles a 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of CHARLES A SULLIVAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $515k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS | $50,000 |
| WYANDOTTE PREGNANCY CLINIC | $35,000 |
| BISHOP SULLIVAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| MOM'S HOUSE | $20,000 |
| SOJOURNER CENTER | $20,000 |
| SAFEHOME | $20,000 |
| NEWHOUSE | $20,000 |
| ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE | $15,000 |
| FIRST WAY PREGNANCY CENTER | $15,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE | $15,000 |
| MIRA VIA | $15,000 |
| BELLA VITA NETWORK | $15,000 |
| HEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $747k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those 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 +77% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 15 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- WPWYANDOTTE PREGNANCY CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +127%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +24%
- HOHEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANone grant, 2024 · $25k
- AAADVICE AID PREGNANCY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $15k
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION GREATER TOLone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
To provide support for pregnant women
We are a crisis pregnancy center offering assistance to all women with pregnancy related issues.
The center provides free pregnancy tests, limited o.b. ultrasounds, non- professional peer counseling, free literature & brochures on topics related to pregnancy and spiritual issues, emergency support for clients in the form of maternity…
The organization provides women in crisis pregnancies alternatives to abortion, regardless of their religion, race or position in life and to help them come to a decision they and their babies can live the rest of their lives.
To provide support to unplanned pregnancies.
To provide pregnancy testing (including ultrasound examinations), counseling, and referrals as needed (including post-abortion counseling) in our offices and through our 24-hour help-line.
Sharing the love of christ while promoting sexual integrity and bringing life affirming services to those unprepared for pregnancy or hurt by abortion
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
We are an outreach ministry of jesus christ committed to providing compassionate guidance, education, and help for all involved prior to, during, and following an unplanned pregnancy.
Provide assistance to women who are pregnant
Consulting for pregnant women. community service referrals.
The pregnancy care center empowers individuals to make life-affirming decisions through education, medical services, counseling, and compassionate care based on the ministry of jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is Birthline Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 81 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 WYANDOTTE PREGNANCY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds BELLA VITA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds Mothers Refuge ↗
- Who funds FIRST WAY PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIRAVIA INC ↗
- Who funds Advice and Aid Pregnancy Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE CARE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOWLING GREEN PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AID TO WOMEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES WOMEN'S CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Insight Womens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON INC ↗
- Who funds Kansans For Life Inc ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES FUND ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Health Forward Foundation · Greater Horizons · The H & R Block Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · The Sunderland Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · Servant Foundation · The Dehaemers Family Charitable Trust
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 Charles a 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.
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.
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