· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| LATINOS FOR EDUCATION | $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 |
| TYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $50,000 |
| EDUCATION FORWARD DC | $50,000 |
| MXDC THE MEXICAN PROFESSIONAL NETWORK | $30,000 |
| 1ST LT SCOTT MILLEY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 73 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 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 HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN PARTNERS IN GLOBAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds VAUDEVILLE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Evanston Dance Ensemble ↗
- Who funds Ensemble Learning ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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