· Private foundation
El 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINI JOYS INC | $20,000 |
| OPTIMIST YOUTH FOOTBALL | $20,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE - CHILDREN'S ASSISTED LIVING | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF IDAHO | $7,500 |
| IDAHO JUSTICE PROJECT | $7,500 |
| CITY LIGHT HOME FOR WOMEN | $5,000 |
| DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO | $5,000 |
| BRONCO ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HHHOPE HOUSE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +43%
- MJMINI JOYS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +36%
- BABronco Athletic Association Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +522%
Funded once
- BKBISHOP KELLY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $7k
- MYMERIDIAN YOUTH BASEBALLone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SJST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Inspire and nurture future explorers, innovators, and critical thinkers through interactive play in a safe, engaging environment with hands-on exhibits and programs designed specifically for children ages two to eight years old.
IHDE exists to create and maintain a collaborative statewide effort to improve the coordination and quality of healthcare through the use of a health information exchange and health information technology.
The Idaho Law Foundation maintains a continuing legal education program and administers grants to 1) educate the public, 2) provide legal services to the state's indigent, 3) develop programs to improve the administration of justice and…
The College of Idaho, a private, residential liberal arts college, prepares students to lead productive and fulfilling lives. We are committed to an innovative, individualized curriculum in liberal arts and professional studies, to…
We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.
The idaho community foundation strengthens communities through philanthropy, elevating nonprofit impact, and connecting idahoans to create a place where everyone can contribute to thriving communities.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.
Our mission is to improve the lives of children in our community.
We, in partnership with our community, provide a comfortable and caring home away from home that supports keeping families together and reduces stress during a child's serious illness.
A non-profit organization which provides a therapeutic youth group home and education to children and families.
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MINI JOYS INC ↗
- Who funds Bronco Athletic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds The Compassionate Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds Idaho Justice Project ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization El Sullivan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from El Sullivan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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