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Mary Margaret Sullivan 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.

$50k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$143k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$50k0%
FY202314$50k0%
FY202214$50k0%
FY202114$50k14%
FY202012$50k0%
FY201911$50k9%
FY201814$48k7%
FY201713$44kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$86kHuman Services$77kPublic Safety & Disaster$69kInternational$44kFood & Nutrition$37kYouth Development$29kAnimals$25kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($96k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHomeboy Industries: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Mission Inc: $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $25,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNational Veterans Foundation Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLos Angeles Police Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Fire Department Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTake the Lead Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Relief: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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About Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation

How much does Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation give?
Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Human Services (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (17%).
Who are Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Shriners Hospitals for Children ($40k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($40k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($30k).
Does Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation based?
Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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