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David M Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$38kAnimals$6kHealth$3kFood & Nutrition$3kReligion$2kInternational$1k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$73k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Operation Blessing Inc$500
Gather$500
St Luke the Evangelist Church$500
Gerry's Food Pantry$500
Community Church of New Boston$500
Sonshine Soup Kitchen$500
Tower Hill Church$500
Kingdom Awakening Ministries$500
Society of Vincent dePaul$500
Dover Food Pantry$500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WELLSPRING: $2k → 7%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $3k → 8%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $5k → 11%Operation Blessing Inc: $500 → 5%JOU NOUVO-NEW DAY: $1k → 8%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.
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 90% of David M Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 8%.

David M Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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 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
Sojourner House Inc

Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.

Housing & Shelter
2
St Francis-St Joseph Catholic Worker House

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.

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3
Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts Inc

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…

Human Services
4
St Joseph's Social Care and Thrift Store

Food cupboard and direct financial aid to individuals and families in need

Human Services
5
Sowing Seeds Ltd

Provide assistance to people in need.

Human Services
6
Groundworks Collaborative Inc

Groundworks collaborative, inc. provides emergency shelter, housing assistance & a food shelf for homeless persons.

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7
Home Inc

H.o.m.e. inc. provides jobs, food, education, temporary shelter, and home ownership to low income families and families in need.

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8
St Joseph the Worker

Job placement and aftercare services to poor and homeless individuals.

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9
East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc

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

Human Services
10
Household Goods Inc

Household goods provides a full range of donated furniture and household items, free of charge, to help people in need make a home.

Human Services
11
Soup Kitchen in Provincetowninc

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
Sonshine Ministries International

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 17 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOSEPH THE WORKER LTD: $28,000 · OtherST JOSEPH THE WORKER LTDCARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC: $3,000 · OtherCARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC+8 more: $4,000 · Other+8 moreMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Keeper IncFRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOME INCWELLSPRING INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING INCJou Nouvo - New Day Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesJou Nouvo - New Day IncOPERATION BLESSING INC: $500 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE FARM SANCTUARY INC: $5,500 · EducationSUNSHINE FAR…GATHER INC: $500 · Religion
Other$35,000Human Services$10,500Education$5,500Religion$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JOSEPH THE WORKER LTD: $28,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetSUNSHINE FARM SANCTUARY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJou Nouvo - New Day Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGATHER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BLESSING INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONSHINE SOUP KITCHEN: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Imagine IncAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Imagine IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Imagine Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 David M Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David M Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 40%
  • Friendship Home Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Wellspring Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to David M Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to David M Sullivan Memorial Foundation Inc 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 17 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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