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George W 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$556,285
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2024
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations George W Sullivan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$1.2M100%
FY20201$20100%
FY20171$10n/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$706kEducation$330kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$10kPhilanthropy$10kAnimals$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of George W Sullivan Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Ontario Arc Foundation Inc$556,285110%
Alfred State College Development Fund Inc$299,53817%
Foodlink Inc$100,00010%
Camp Good Days and Special Times Inc$50,00011%
F F Thompson Hospital Foundation Inc$40,00012%
The James P Wilmot Foundation Inc$25,00013%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$20,00010%
Ontario Childrens Foundation$10,00013%
Wease Cares Childrens Fund$10,0001n/a
Keuka Comfort Care Home Inc$7,50012%
Sunset House Inc$7,50012%
Ontario County Humane Society Inc$5,00011%
Nysarc Inc Ontario County Chapter$1010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George W Sullivan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Ontario Arc Foundation Inc: $556,285 over 1y, 10% of budgetAlfred State College Development Fund Inc: $299,538 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetFoodlink Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Good Days and Special Times Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetF F Thompson Hospital Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe James P Wilmot Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOntario Childrens Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKeuka Comfort Care Home Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSunset House Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOntario County Humane Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNysarc Inc Ontario County Chapter: $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About George W Sullivan Foundation

How much does George W Sullivan Foundation give?
George W Sullivan Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,160,823 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does George W Sullivan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (61%), Education (28%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are George W Sullivan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of Ontario Arc Foundation Inc ($556k), Alfred State College Development Fund Inc ($300k), Foodlink Inc ($100k).
Does George W Sullivan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George W Sullivan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as George W Sullivan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is George W Sullivan Foundation based?
George W Sullivan Foundation is based in NY.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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