· Private foundation
Sullivan Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESEARCHAMERICA | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| GRADY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| MISSISSIPPI BLUES FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HEROES SAINTS LEGENDS WESLEY | $1,250 |
| ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $650 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY | $500 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE | $500 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE | $250 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES | $250 |
| PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY | $85 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55 |
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, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RRESEARCHAMERICA5× · 2017–2025 · $231k · revenue +135%
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGE5× · 2017–2021 · $217k · revenue +69%
- MSMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- AOASSOCIATION OF ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTERS INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -25%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +6%- NHNATIONAL HEALTH MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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 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…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To advance anthropology as the science that studies humankind in all its aspects, through archeological, biological, ethnological, and linguistic research; and to further the professional interest of american anthropologist, including the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
How this is measured
71 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. 71 of the 133 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 RESEARCHAMERICA ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Sullivan Alliance ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Fulton Leadership Academy ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK NURSES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Jonas Philanthropies Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORYMAKERS ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Winston School ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · Emory University · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sullivan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sullivan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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