· Private foundation
Sullivan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $150,000 |
| TOMTEN FARM & SANCTUARY | $100,000 |
| LIFEWORKS INC | $55,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $50,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $25,000 |
| THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $25,000 |
| MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES | $20,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| THE FORBES HOUSE MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| SUPPORT THE TROOPS WI | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $491k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LILIFEWORKS INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +136%
- SFSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $251k · revenue +173%
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ZPZERO PROSTATE CANCERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +104%
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.
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.
Provide specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.
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.
Refocus is a human service agency that serves adults with differing physical and developmental needs. we are an organization of dedicated people offering opportunities for growth in a loving, trusting, and challenging environment. we value…
It is the mission of work,inc. to ensure that all individuals with disabilities have the ability to grow, the right to make choices, access to education, and the opportunity to participate in community life via meaningful work.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
The organization's mission is to help persons with disabilities to find happiness in their own homes, in their personal relationships, and as contributing members of their community.
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
A certified home health agency (chha) providing home-based therapy and related rehabilitation services to children and young adults with special needs.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 LIFEWORKS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZERO PROSTATE CANCER ↗
- Who funds HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTH NORFOLK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Captain Forbes House Museum ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS IN THE CITY INC ↗
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
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.
- Captain Forbes House Museum: 100% of income from government
- Lifeworks Incorporated: 81% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc: 76% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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