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The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable 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.

$18k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$662k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentInternationalAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$18k17%
FY20234$14k25%
FY20229$42k67%
FY20216$34k50%
FY20204$24k0%
FY20197$31k57%
FY20184$23k0%
FY20176$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$200kEducation$101kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kHuman Services$24kYouth Development$15kEnvironment$15kHousing & Shelter$9kInternational$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
CO
MD
AZ
DC
HI
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget100 Club of Buffalo Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetCatholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAloha Tree Alliance: $10,300 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSinai Assisted Housing Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMuslim Youth for Positive Impact: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMerwin Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGlobal Goods Partners Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreehouse: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHo'Ola Na Pua: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Circle of Miami Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe People's Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHanahauoli School: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHawaiian Humane Society: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation

How much does The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation give?
The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $17,950 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (49%), Education (25%), Public Safety & Disaster (9%).
Who are The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Hawaii Foundation ($100k), 100 Club of Buffalo Inc ($35k), Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc ($20k).
Does The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation based?
The Paul and Karen Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation is based in HI.

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 22 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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