· Private foundation
Sullivan Family Fund
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $207k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $105,000 |
| URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $102,115 |
| TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $34,500 |
| ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME | $30,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| COLLEGE NOW | $16,500 |
| WABUN FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| TWO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,240 |
| HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $3,000 |
| DELAWARE CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $2,500 |
| HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $2,260 |
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, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
132 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 20 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +80%
- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $186k · revenue +44%
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College7× · 2018–2024 · $148k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- SMST MARTIN DE PORRESone grant, 2017 · $45k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- MOMUSEUM OF MODERN ARTone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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How this is measured
132 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. 132 of the 299 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BALLET ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDCARE 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: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · The Catherine L & Edward a Lozick Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sullivan Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sullivan Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children and Families First: 87% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Justice: 73% of income from government
- Literacy Delaware: 30% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc: 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
- Delaware Shakespeare Festival Inc: 18% of income from government
- The Farm School Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- Brandywine Baroque Inc: 11% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc: 8% of income from government
- Foundcare Inc: 6% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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