· Private foundation
Robert And Susan Sullivan Charitable Foundation Inc C/o Sullivan Tire Co
Its FY2025 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: 78% of Robert And Susan Sullivan Charitable Foundation Inc C/o Sullivan Tire Co’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO SOUTH | $53,423 |
| MY BROTHER'S KEEPER | $30,000 |
| ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY | $25,000 |
| FATHER BILL'S AND MAINSPRING | $25,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS | $25,000 |
| MARY QUEEN OF MARTYRS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| LIFE TEEN | $3,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY PARISH | $2,000 |
| SIGNATURE HEALTHCARE (RING OF CHAMPIONS) | $1,500 |
| THE PETER FRATES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAINT ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SIGNATURE HEALTH (CHAMPIONS FIGHTING CANCER WALK) | $825 |
| AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION | $520 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
31 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- FBFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC8× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +150%
- MBMy Brothers Keeper Inc3× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +17%
- RTROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC3× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- DDDIOCESE DE BERBERATI (BISHOP DENNIS)one grant, 2022 · $45k
- SMST MARY'S OF HANOVERone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SMSt Mary's - Father Chris Hickeyone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
We, trinity health pace and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life is a member of trinity health pace and trinity health.
Springwell helps individuals improve their quality of life and reduce their need for residential care by helping them access community resources. springwell works with individuals directly as well as with government agencies, health…
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
The mission of hsl hospice is to provide exceptional care to terminally ill patients and their families allowing patients to attain the highest quality of life possible. hsl hospice aims to provide the highest quality hospice service that…
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
Care dimensions, inc. (cd) enriches quality of life by providing expert care, support, education, and consultation for those affected by life limiting illness, death, and loss.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the community hospice is a member of st. peter's health partners…
Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…
We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. saint mary home is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Challenge Unlimited Inc and the most unlike its peers is Skylur J Spagone Memorial Fund Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 85 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
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.
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Imagine Inc · Pilgrim Bank Foundation · Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association · Copeland Family Foundation Inc · Abington Bank Community Foundation Inc F/K/A Envision Bank Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Robert And Susan Sullivan Charitable Foundation Inc C/o Sullivan Tire Co 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Road to Responsibility Inc — 92% of income from government
- Work Incorporated — 76% of income from government
- New England Village Inc — 68% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Jericho Road Ministries Inc — 21% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.