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Sullivan Family 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.

$8k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Sullivan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$8k100%
FY20222$2k50%
FY202113$36k46%
FY20208$30k88%
FY20182$35k50%
FY20178$41kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$51kEducation$50kHealth$16kReligion$16kFood & Nutrition$7kHuman Services$7kRecreation & Sports$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MA
IN
OH
CA
KY
MD
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), 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.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetro United Way Inc: $51,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNativity Prep Academy of San Diego Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Academy of Nursing: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStark County Hunger Task Force Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPegasus Farm: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe 100 Club of Illinois: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJosette Beddell Memorial Foundation: $5,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetJunior League of Louisville Inc: $3,900 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Margarets House: $3,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAkron-Canton Regional Foodbank: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for the Homeless Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFore Stark County Youth Development Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Sullivan Family Foundation

How much does Sullivan Family Foundation give?
Sullivan Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $8,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sullivan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Education (31%), Health (10%).
Who are Sullivan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Metro United Way Inc ($51k), Nativity Prep Academy of San Diego Inc ($10k), American Academy of Nursing ($10k).
Does Sullivan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sullivan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sullivan Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Sullivan Family Foundation based?
Sullivan Family Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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