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Szulik 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$2.3MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$425kReligion$393kPhilanthropy$170kYouth Development$135kEnvironment$125kArts & Culture$38k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $125
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$150,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION$125,000
ST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH$50,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION$25,000
SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH$25,000
FROM K-1 PILLAR III-A$125
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $560k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $25k → 4%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $125k → 6%SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $25k → 4%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $25k → 4%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $75k → 6%SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $20k → 4%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $75k → 6%SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $20k → 4%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $10k → 4%SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $10k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 10 repeat orgs$588k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +146% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$4.0M
$588k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+146%
+32%

Still filing today

60%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +49%
  • TO
    THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $425k · revenue +75%
  • HEALING TRANSITIONS INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $360k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $350k · revenue +141%
  • Elon Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +32%
  • NM
    NC MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2019 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Drake University

See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
10
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
11
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
12
Syracuse University

Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sam & Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,825,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $350,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESElon University — $150,000 · EducationElon UniversityWAKEMED FOUNDATION — $635,000 · OtherWAKEMED FOUNDATIONCATHOLIC PARISH OUTREACH — $180,000 · OtherCATHOLIC PARISH OUTREACHST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH — $107,500 · OtherST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHO…ST FRANCIS CHAPEL — $105,000 · OtherST FRANCIS CHAPEL+4 more — $70,125 · Other+4 moreTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $425,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION …Sam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth — $135,000 · Human ServicesSam & Devorah…HEALING TRANSITIONS INC — $360,000 · HealthHEALING TRAN…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $175,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S …FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $150,000 · Community ImprovementBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $100,000 · EnvironmentDARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentDARTMOUTH CULTURAL CENTER INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureRALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$2,325,000Other$1,097,625Human Services$560,000Health$535,000Community Improvement$150,000Environment$125,000Arts & Culture$8,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,825,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $425,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC — $360,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetElon University — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth — $135,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDURHAM-CHAPEL HILL JEWISH FEDERATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDARTMOUTH CULTURAL CENTER INC — $8,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetRALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Leon Levine FoundationNC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Leon Levine Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Szulik Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition37% of income from government
  • Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc3% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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