· Private foundation
David M 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dover Food Pantry | $500 |
| St Luke the Evangelist Church | $500 |
| Gerry's Food Pantry | $500 |
| Tower Hill Church | $500 |
| Kingdom Awakening Ministries | $500 |
| Community Church of New Boston | $500 |
| Sonshine Soup Kitchen | $500 |
| Society of Vincent dePaul | $500 |
| Operation Blessing Inc | $500 |
| Gather | $500 |
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 (FY19–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 90% of David M Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 8% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.
Provide food and shelter to 16 homeless men at no cost to them while they transition onto independent living. Provide free soup kitchen to all who choose to come to our door.
Collecting and warehousing household goods for distribution and delivery to poor, needy or distressed individuals and families in need of financial assistance, in cooperation with and/or upon referral by charitable and other organizations…
Food cupboard and direct financial aid to individuals and families in need
Provide assistance to people in need.
Groundworks collaborative, inc. provides emergency shelter, housing assistance & a food shelf for homeless persons.
H.o.m.e. inc. provides jobs, food, education, temporary shelter, and home ownership to low income families and families in need.
Job placement and aftercare services to poor and homeless individuals.
To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity
Household goods provides a full range of donated furniture and household items, free of charge, to help people in need make a home.
Soup kitchen is open for lunch in provincetown 5 days per week, six months over the winter months (nov-apr) serving approximately 900 meals per week.
We provide homes, a healthy diet, medical treatment, quality education, and counseling for orphaned abused and neglected children in Tanzania, East Africa. Sonshine works directly with Child Welfare Services of Tanzania. CWS provides…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jou Nouvo - New Day Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 ST JOSEPH THE WORKER LTD ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds Jou Nouvo - New Day Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BLESSING INC ↗
- Who funds SONSHINE SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds GATHER 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: Imagine Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 David M Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
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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