· Private foundation
The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| PORCH INC | $5,000 |
| PBS NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| WUNC PUBLIC RADIO | $4,000 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RSCH FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERV | $3,068 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PRE | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $2,000 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE RECOVER CENTER | $1,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF NC | $1,000 |
| UN REFUGEE AGENCY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +150%- PIPORCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue ×266 · 48% of their budget
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +21%
Funded once
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +80%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Justice Center and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 81 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PORCH INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKJAJA Fund ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Goals for Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Strowd Roses Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Shared Visions Foundation Inc · Carlson Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Duke University Health System Inc · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family 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 The Ann Ludington Sullivan 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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