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The Randy and Ann Marie Sullivan Foundation at a glance

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The Randy and Ann Marie Sullivan 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.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$137kYouth Development$119kPhilanthropy$50kHousing & Shelter$50kReligion$37kFood & Nutrition$7kRecreation & Sports$6kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brown Foundation$20,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Champion Valley$18,600
Sky High for Kids$15,544
Young Life$10,000
The Hope House$10,000
Fayette Community Foundation$1,500
Individual grant recipient$900
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 (FY20–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 11%Camp Aranzazu: $155 → 17%Colorado County Youth and Family Services: $5k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
CA
CO
MO
TN
LA
MS
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$308k · 10 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +18% 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
20

Total granted

$308k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+18%

Still filing today

70%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • SH
    SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $72k · revenue +93%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMPION VALLEY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +23%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +74%
  • MA
    MD Anderson Cancer Center
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Thomas R Brown Foundation
Social Science
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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3
Children's Cancer Research Fund

Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.

Philanthropy
4
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
5
Shoot Down Kids Cancer Foundation
Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
The Elizabeth Brown Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
9
Peter and Susan Brown Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
11
The Beth Brown Memorial Foundation Co Lizia Sounders
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12
William Brown Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Lazarus Inc; the most unlike its peers is Billy Brown Charitable Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Hope House: $50,000 · OtherThe Hope HouseMD Anderson Cancer Center: $25,000 · OtherMD Anderson Cancer CenterSt Jude: $10,000 · OtherSt JudeYOUNG LIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE FOUNDATIONPALS: $10,000 · OtherPALSMD Anderson: $6,500 · OtherThe Brown FoundationMD Anderson: $5,500 · OtherAUSTIN BAPTIST CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherUnidos por Puerto Rico: $5,000 · OtherColumbus FFA Show & Sale: $4,950 · Other+7 more: $11,000 · Other+7 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMPION VALLEY INC: $66,310 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAM…YOUNG LIFE: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFESKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC: $71,502 · HealthSKY HIGH FOR KIDS INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARC…+2 more: $3,000 · HealthThe Brown Foundation Inc: $30,000 · PhilanthropyThe Brown Fou…BILLY BROWN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15,600 · PhilanthropyBILLY BROWN C…DEACONS OF DEADWOOD: $3,000 · PhilanthropyDEACONS OF DE…+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyMISSION LAZARUS INC: $19,012 · InternationalCOLORADO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $5,950 · Recreation & SportsColorado County Youth & Family Serv: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $155 · Human ServicesDiamonds in the Ruff Animal Rescue Inc: $995 · Animals
Other$142,950Youth Development$101,310Health$99,502Philanthropy$50,100International$19,012Recreation & Sports$5,950Human Services$5,155Animals$995

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC: $71,502 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMPION VALLEY INC: $66,310 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brown Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION LAZARUS INC: $19,012 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBILLY BROWN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15,600 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOLORADO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $5,950 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetColorado County Youth & Family Serv: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDEACONS OF DEADWOOD: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER FAYETTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDiamonds in the Ruff Animal Rescue Inc: $995 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc: $155 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX13.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Randy and Ann Marie Sullivan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Randy and Ann Marie Sullivan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    How do I get to The Randy and Ann Marie Sullivan Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Randy and Ann Marie Sullivan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 32 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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