· Private foundation
J Sullivan Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 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 RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds For the Nations Refugee Outreach ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J Sullivan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Sullivan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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