· Private foundation
Ma Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBERTS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $32,000 |
| WFYI FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC | $10,000 |
| INDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWFYI Foundation Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +181%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +74%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +18%
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.
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,…
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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…
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…
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 INDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WFYI Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ma Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ma Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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