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Szulik Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +146% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
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

  • 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
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.

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.…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust Inc; 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 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 21 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

The Leon Levine Found…Triangle Community Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Szulik Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Szulik Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% 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, 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.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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By state
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