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James & Rita Sullivan Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$96k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$476kReligion$87kHousing & Shelter$80kPublic Safety & Disaster$72kFood & Nutrition$57kHealth$47kRecreation & Sports$39kHuman Services$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ANNES CHURCH$19,000
LIFENET$8,000
SPONSORS CORNER INC$6,000
SISTERS OF ST DOMINIC$6,000
SEVERAL SOURCES SHELTER$5,000
ST JOHNS UNIV ATHLETICS$4,500
PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS$4,500
COVENANT HOUSE$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
PRIESTS FOR LIFE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
RELEVANT RADIO$2,000
ST ANNE'S FOOD BANK$2,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOWNEY SIDE INC: $2k → 9%LIFENET: $8k → 16%LIFENET: $1k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $7k → 17%LIFENET: $500 → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $6k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MN
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$911k · 44 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
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Total granted

$911k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
-25%

Still filing today

25%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionHealthEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther

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

  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +34%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +97%
  • FU
    Fordham University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CC
    CORPUS CHRISTIE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

2
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
3
Good Shepherd Hospice

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
6
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Chs Services Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

8
The Community Hospice Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the community hospice is a member of st. peter's health partners…

Human Services
9
Good Shepherd Hospice Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

10
St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
11
St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
12
Mercy Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST ANNES CHURCH — $275,000 · OtherST ANNES CHURCHOASIS — $56,000 · OtherOASISDOMINICAN SISTERS OF BLAUVELT — $52,000 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS OF BLAUVELTST JOHNS UNIV ATHLETICS — $38,500 · OtherSEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC — $34,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $33,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS — $27,000 · Other+37 more — $241,300 · Other+37 moreCOVENANT HOUSE — $36,000 · Human ServicesLIFENET Inc — $9,500 · Human ServicesDOWNEY SIDE INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesSPONSORS CORNERS INC — $29,000 · ReligionIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC — $5,900 · ReligionETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC — $5,900 · ReligionCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $31,000 · Food & NutritionPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS — $23,000 · PhilanthropyFordham University — $11,000 · EducationFairfield University — $8,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL — $7,000 · HealthTHE CTC ACADEMY INC — $6,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$756,800Human Services$47,500Religion$40,800Food & Nutrition$31,000Philanthropy$23,000Education$19,000Health$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $36,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC — $34,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPONSORS CORNERS INC — $29,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS — $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University — $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLIFENET Inc — $9,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFairfield University — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL — $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CTC ACADEMY INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC — $5,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNEY SIDE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 COVENANT HOUSE
  • Who funds SEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
  • Who funds SPONSORS CORNERS INC
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS
  • Who funds Fordham University
  • Who funds LIFENET Inc
  • Who funds Fairfield University
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL
  • Who funds THE CTC ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 James & Rita Sullivan Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Fairfield University1% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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