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Daniel J Sullivan Family Charitable 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: 51% of DANIEL J SULLIVAN FAMILY CHARITABLE 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN | $70,000 |
| THE ISABEL O'NEIL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| SUMMER DREAMS INC | $20,000 |
| MCNAY ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN ANTONIO | $20,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| STILL WATER CAMPS INC | $10,000 |
| THERAPY ANIMALS OF SAN ANTONIO | $10,000 |
| FALFURRIAS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
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%. 97% 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- TITHE ISABEL O'NEIL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +669%
- SASAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +78%
- TBTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM3× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- OSOLD SPANISH MISSIONS INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +19%
- SASABINAL ALUMNIone grant, 2022 · $5k
- MCMAYS CANCER CENTER UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
To support and benefit st. anthony catholic school.
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. we…
To furnish Texas AM University-San Antonio with provisions for future and perpetual financial support for its students to help them succeed during college and in the future as valuable contributing members of the community
The school was acquired by the university of texas - san antonio with the majority of the assets and curriculum being transferred.
See schedule osan antonio academy of texas offers prekindergarten through eighth grade boys an exceptional academic program that features small classes, a family-like atmosphere, the development of a positive self image and a foundation…
The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Incarnate Word and the most unlike its peers is Sabinal Alumni. 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 40 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 — 6% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 48 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 THE ISABEL O'NEIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM ↗
- Who funds THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds Therapy Animals of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
- Who funds KLRN ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OLD SPANISH MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds FALFURRIAS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SUMMER DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds St Anthony Catholic High School ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STILL WATER CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Southern Brooks Volunteer Fire Departmen ↗
- Who funds SABINAL ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds INCARNATE WORD HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY ↗
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: Impetus Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · San Antonio Area Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation · The Gorman Foundation · The Nancy Wood Moorman Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd 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 Daniel J Sullivan Family Charitable 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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