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Sullivan Family Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $350k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $773k
- $250k+3 grants · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $350,000 |
| LATINOS FOR EDUCATION | $250,000 |
| WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $140,000 |
| POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL | $125,000 |
| BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION | $100,000 |
| US NAVEL ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| IDENTITY INC | $80,000 |
| SOLIDARITY INC | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION | $52,892 |
| EDUCATION FORWARD DC | $50,000 |
| TYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $50,000 |
| MXDC THE MEXICAN PROFESSIONAL NETWORK | $30,000 |
| 1ST LT SCOTT MILLEY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VAUDEVILLE CHICAGO | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
- WIWASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL4× · 2020–2024 · $560k · revenue +38%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC4× · 2020–2024 · $480k · revenue +63%
- IIIDENTITY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $165k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FEDERATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ASArmed Services Arts Partnershipgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +104%
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -17%
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Education and Research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latinos for Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 73 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.
- Who funds WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds LATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FORWARD DC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN PARTNERS IN GLOBAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Evanston Dance Ensemble ↗
- Who funds VAUDEVILLE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Ensemble Learning ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Armed Services Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Grapevine giving foundation ↗
- Who funds NATURE SACRED ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Gates Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra 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.
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