How much does The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation give?

The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $55,068 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($57k), Porch Inc ($31k), Roanoke College ($24k).

Does The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Strowd Roses Inc, United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc.

Where is The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation based?

The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation is based in NC.

The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation

The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$103kEducation$60kArts & Culture$52kFood & Nutrition$34kCrime & Legal$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHousing & Shelter$16kCivil Rights$13kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$700k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
CHC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION	$1,000
FREEDOM HOUSE RECOVER CENTER	$1,000
LEGAL AID OF NC	$1,000

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 (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 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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$371k · 48 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$371k

$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+19%

Still filing today

75%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalCrime & LegalEducationArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +250%
PI
PORCH INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue ×266 · 48% of their budget
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +21%

Funded once

ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +80%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $3k
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +36%

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.

Disability Rights North Carolina

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.

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Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health

Patient Access Network Foundation

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…

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American Cancer Society Inc

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.

Health

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Unc Health Foundation Inc

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.

Education

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture

Care Share Health Alliance Inc

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…

Health

Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Justice Center; 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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 81 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)

56/56

Grantees still filing

37/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$163,218Health$88,600Education$50,500International$36,000Food & Nutrition$33,000Crime & Legal$30,600Youth Development$10,500

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC36.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ann Ludington Sullivan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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