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The Robert J Sullivan Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.8M
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Health$1.1MEducation$293kReligion$115kHousing & Shelter$60kYouth Development$44kHuman Services$40kInternational$18kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $4,185 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,761,510 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,757,325 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$4,185
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Young Life$4,185
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 5% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Khan Academy: $10k → 8%Henry Schein Cares Foundation: $10k → 7%Miracle Corners of the World: $13k → 17%Hope Center Inc: $30k → 5%St Alphonsus Parish: $10k → 17%Dental Trade Alliance Foundation: $1.0M → 7%Miracle Corners of the World: $3k → 17%Hope Center: $10k → 5%St Alphonsus Parish: $10k → 17%Dental Trade Alliance Foundation: $25k → 7%Miracle Corners of the World: $3k → 17%See statement attached: $4.7M → 5%MacCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary Inc: $30k → 17%Dental Trade Alliance Foundation: $25k → 7%See statement attached: $4k → 5%Marquette University: $100k → 17%Clinician Task Force: $30k → 7%Young Life: $10k → 5%Sisters of the Divine Savior: $35k → 17%Young Life: $4k → 5%Sisters of the Divine Savior: $30k → 17%Sisters of the Divine Savior: $30k → 17%SecuresFutures: $30k → 17%Milwaukee Lutheran High School Association: $40k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 9 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$1.5M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+128%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MU
    Marquette University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $173k · revenue +46%
  • KA
    KHAN ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +123%
  • HC
    Hope Center Inc
    2× · 2018–2020 · $40k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • ML
    Milwaukee Lutheran High School Association
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +205%
  • CT
    Clinician Task Force
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -23% · 35% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
My Community Dental Centers Inc

My Community Dental Centers, Inc. is a Michigan non-profit organization established to provide dental services by creating and managing dental clinics on behalf of local public health departments to deliver services to the Medicaid and…

Health
2
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
3
Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics

Assisting individuals in ethically informed decision making by generating and communication ethical concepts, principles and frameworks; exploring and researching diverse cultural perspectives; and promoting health care ethics education…

Health
4
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

5
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

6
Open Cities Health Center Inc

Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Health
7
Mercy Dental Missions Inc

To restore hope, health, and opportunity by providing quality dental care to the uninsured and underinsured across Wisconsin. We aim to address health equity concerns, eliminate barriers to access, and make a positive impact through our…

Health
8
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

Health
9
Care Providers of Minnesota Foundation

To promote quality care in long term health care facilities through education and research.

10
Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation

To be the leading thought partner and trusted advisor to a multitude of stakeholders for developing effective solutions and driving transformative impact in the health and social sector in Nigeria and the African Continent.

International
11
Mha Health Institute

Assist hospitals and other healthcare-related organizations in the effective management and utilization of human resources and in developing education programs designed to meet the educational requirements of over 5,000 hospital personnel.…

12
Oral Healthcare for All Foundations

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle Corners of the World Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Dental Trade Alliance Foundation — $1,050,000 · EducationDental Trade Alliance FoundationMarquette University — $172,500 · EducationMarquette UniversityKHAN ACADEMY INC — $80,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCSISTERS OF THE DIVINE SAVIOR — $95,000 · OtherSISTERS OF THE D…Milwaukee Lutheran High School Association — $40,000 · OtherMilwaukee Luther…Hope Center Inc — $40,000 · OtherHope Center IncSecuresFutures — $30,000 · OtherSecuresFuturesST ALPHONSUS PARISH — $20,000 · OtherST ALPHONSUS PAR…Young Life — $14,185 · OtherYoung LifeMacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC — $30,000 · Public BenefitYOUNG LIFE — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentClinician Task Force — $30,000 · HealthMIRACLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD INC — $17,500 · InternationalHENRY SCHEIN CARES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,302,500Other$239,185Public Benefit$30,000Youth Development$30,000Health$30,000International$17,500Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDental Trade Alliance Foundation — $1,050,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetMarquette University — $172,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHope Center Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClinician Task Force — $30,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetHENRY SCHEIN CARES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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 Dental Trade Alliance Foundation
  • Who funds Marquette University
  • Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds Hope Center Inc
  • Who funds MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds Clinician Task Force
  • Who funds MIRACLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD INC
  • Who funds HENRY SCHEIN CARES FOUNDATION 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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Robert J Sullivan Family 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Robert J Sullivan Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Robert J Sullivan Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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