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John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of JOHN J SULLIVAN JR FOUNDATION JOHN HOULEHAN & MARK HENKE-TRUSTEES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k77 grants · $211k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $206k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL | $78,500 |
| NOTRE DAME DE SION | $34,000 |
| ST PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $22,500 |
| KANSANS FOR LIFE | $13,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL CHURCH | $12,000 |
| ST TERESA'S ACADEMY | $11,500 |
| CURE OF ARS | $11,500 |
| ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC | $11,500 |
| CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPT | $10,000 |
| KCKCC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY'S MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST ROSE PHILIPPINE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SOC OF OUR LADY MOST HOLY TRINITY | $10,000 |
| SAINT MARTIN'S ACADEMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
177 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2024, 93 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- DCDonnelly College8× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +166%
- KFKansans For Life Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +805%
- SMST MARTIN'S ACADEMY5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- SPSt Peter's Parishone grant, 2020 · $18k
- COCATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- LOLOS OLIVOS CISone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
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.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Villa st francis, a catholic, non-profit skilled nursing facility sponsored by the archdiocese of kansas city in olathe, provides dementia care, skilled nursing, respite, and hospice.
Wichita's littlest heroes (wlh) exists to provide hope, help, and happiness to families of children ages 0-18 in the kansas area who are battling life-threatening medical conditions. wlh strives to accomplish this be being a physical and…
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Fahey Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
127 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. 127 of the 283 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds Kansans For Life Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds WONDERSCOPE 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.
Open a dossier: Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · McCullough Family Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Dehaemers Family Charitable Trust · The H & R Block Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg
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 John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees 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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