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J Sullivan Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$73k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$28,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$526k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations J Sullivan Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$73k9%
FY202411$65k9%
FY202310$49k10%
FY202213$145k15%
FY202112$57k17%
FY202010$52k10%
FY201911$61k0%
FY201813$67k0%
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What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$231kReligion$199kHuman Services$121kEducation$61kFood & Nutrition$36kHealth$24kHousing & Shelter$20kInternational$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$50,00010%
Marriage and Family Counseling Inc$48,0008n/a
Harvest of Hope Food Pantry Inc$36,00094%
Ligonier Ministries Inc$32,0006n/a
Friends on a Mission Outreach Inc$27,0003n/a
The Golden Rule Inc$24,00081%
Precept$18,00090%
Houston Haven Ministry$17,00051%
Direction613$12,00020%
Sumter Faith Clinic$10,0002n/a
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of J Sullivan Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$50,00010%
Marriage and Family Counseling Inc$48,0008n/a
Harvest of Hope Food Pantry Inc$36,00094%
Ligonier Ministries Inc$32,0006n/a
Friends on a Mission Outreach Inc$27,0003n/a
The Golden Rule Inc$24,00081%
Precept$18,00090%
Houston Haven Ministry$17,00051%
Direction613$12,00020%
Sumter Faith Clinic$10,0002n/a
Georgia Sheriffs' Youth Homes Inc$6,00030%
Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia Inc$3,0001n/a
For the Nations Refugee Outreach$3,00020%
Bible Study Fellowship$2,00010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($407k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuke University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarvest of Hope Food Pantry Inc: $36,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetThe Golden Rule Inc: $24,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPrecept: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Haven Ministry: $17,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDirection613: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Sheriffs' Youth Homes Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFor the Nations Refugee Outreach: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBible Study Fellowship: $2,000 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 9.

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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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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How do I get to J Sullivan Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to J Sullivan 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.

About J Sullivan Foundation Inc

How much does J Sullivan Foundation Inc give?
J Sullivan Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $72,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does J Sullivan Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (33%), Religion (29%), Human Services (17%).
Who are J Sullivan Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Duke University ($50k), Marriage and Family Counseling Inc ($48k), Harvest of Hope Food Pantry Inc ($36k).
Does J Sullivan Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does J Sullivan Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as J Sullivan Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is J Sullivan Foundation Inc based?
J Sullivan Foundation Inc is based in GA.

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 23 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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