· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $5,000 |
| SAINT JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $4,000 |
| SAINT VINCENT MEALS ON WHEELS | $4,000 |
| SPCA LA | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $3,000 |
| LOS ANGELES MISSION | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +120%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +98%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +90%
Funded once
DIRECT RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +94%
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.
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To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
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To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAKE THE LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Margaret Sullivan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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