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Ma Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$112k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202025.

Health$152kPhilanthropy$100kOther$137k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$887k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERTS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$32,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$15,000
WFYI FOUNDATION$15,000
GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC$10,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$10,000
INDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION$10,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$10,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $15k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 5%GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $10k → 16%SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $10k → 16%SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%WFYI FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%WFYI FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%WFYI FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%WFYI FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%WFYI FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%INDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%INDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%INDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%INDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%INDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%ROBERTS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $35k → 16%ROBERTS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $32k → 16%ROBERTS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $25k → 16%ROBERTS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $25k → 16%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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$372k · 7 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$372k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+18%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • WF
    WFYI Foundation Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +69%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +74%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +18%

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
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
2
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
5
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
7
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
8
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

9
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indiana United Methodist Children's Home Foundation 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $50,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $45,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $40,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · HealthROBERTS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $117,000 · OtherROBERTS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC — $20,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCWFYI Foundation Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyWFYI Foundation IncINDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyINDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHIL…
Health$152,000Other$137,000Philanthropy$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWFYI Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetINDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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 Ma Sullivan Family Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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 9 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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