· Private foundation
J Sullivan Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE OF MACON SERVICE CENTER | $28,000 |
| DIRECTION 613 | $8,000 |
| HOUSTON HAVEN MINISTRY | $8,000 |
| LIGONIER MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING INC | $6,000 |
| HARVEST OF HOPE FOOD PANTRY INC | $4,000 |
| THE RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GA | $3,000 |
| SOUTH GEORGIA METHODIST HOME | $3,000 |
| PRECEPT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| COVENANT CARE ADOPTION SERVICES | $2,000 |
| SOUTH GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- YLYOUNG LIFE OF MACON SERVICE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $231k
- MAMARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING INC8× · 2017–2025 · $48k
- HOHARVEST OF HOPE FOOD PANTRY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue -11%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MACONone grant, 2022 · $88k
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +51%- STSTRONG TOWER FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Minister to the spiritual needs of people, primarily through the publication of literature consistent with biblical principles and through grants to other charitable entities.
Reclaim individuals from a life of addiction, Rebuild them in spiritual sobriety in Christ, and Restore them to productive, Christ-like service in society.
Proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Bible
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Reset's mission is to empower individuals to overcome the impact of poverty, trauma, abuse, addiction, and/or incarceration by providing dignified housing, opportunities, and resources to support individuals and bring them hope for a free,…
To teach the true meaning of repentance and remission of sin as stated in luke 24:47 in an easy to understand duplicable way that produces real lifelong profitable results.
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
To preach and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through evangelism, teaching, counseling, discipling and outreach. Our specific ministry is to those broken through addiction and trauma, providing recovery and life training skills through…
Christian services including missions efforts, humanitarian aide, mentoring/discipleship, establishment and covering of churches, licensing/ordaining ministers, pastoral support, all domestically and internationally.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Golden Rule Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST OF HOPE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GOLDEN RULE INC ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HAVEN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Direction613 ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SHERIFFS' YOUTH HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds For the Nations Refugee Outreach ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
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: 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
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 J Sullivan 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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