Massachusetts · Private foundation
Sullivan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $453k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sullivan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $453k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $328k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $383k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $404k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $596k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $470k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $185k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $211k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifeworks Incorporated | $290,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Saint Francis House Inc | $250,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc | $125,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maria Droste Counseling Services Inc | $85,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Zero Prostate Cancer | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Horace Mann Educational Associates Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifeworks Incorporated | $290,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Saint Francis House Inc | $250,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc | $125,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maria Droste Counseling Services Inc | $85,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Zero Prostate Cancer | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Horace Mann Educational Associates Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| North Bennet Street School | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Arc of South Norfolk Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| House of Possibilities Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Captain Forbes House Museum | $21,000 | 4 | 2% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Christmas in the City Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| St Elizabeth Parish | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sullivan Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sullivan Family Foundation
- How much does Sullivan Family Foundation give?
- Sullivan Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $452,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sullivan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (75%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Animals (5%).
- Who are Sullivan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lifeworks Incorporated ($290k), Saint Francis House Inc ($251k), Homes for Our Troops Inc ($150k).
- Does Sullivan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sullivan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sullivan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sullivan Family Foundation based?
- Sullivan Family Foundation is based in MA.
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