How much does Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation give?

Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $276,322 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 77 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (66%), Health (12%), Education (6%).

Who are Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of Martin County Inc ($110k), Fenix Family Health Center ($105k), Georgetown University ($100k).

Does Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Susan R and John W Sullivan 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.

Where is Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation based?

Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation is based in FL.

Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation

Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Susan R and John W Sullivan 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.

$276k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$276k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.1MHealth$933kEducation$495kReligion$273kHousing & Shelter$208kEnvironment$180kFood & Nutrition$164kPublic Safety & Disaster$126kOther$0

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$276,322

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MARTIN - ST LUCIE - SUSAN R SULLIVAN FUND	$276,322

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 38% of Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 79%.

Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 5.1% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 80 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+17%

Still filing today

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

FF
Fenix Family Health Center
7× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +157%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +47%
FO
FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $93k · revenue +114%

Funded once

TS
TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN-PALM BEACH COUNTY
one grant, 2021 · $20k
LF
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
AO
ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO - TO TEACH WHO CHRIST IS
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

04Its field

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.

Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International

Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech

International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Inc

To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hospice Foundation of Martin & St Lucie Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wild Florida Rescue Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 145 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

81/83

Grantees still filing

60/83

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$4,590,200Other$2,328,356Philanthropy$300,700Education$277,000Health$179,500Science & Tech$92,500Environment$68,890

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties IncFL30.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc · Loblolly Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Martin County Inc · Gordana Uscumlic Foundation · The per and Astrid Heidenreich Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Finn Family Foundation Inc · The Lichtenberger Foundation Inc · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

19get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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