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The Sullivan & Cromwell 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Historical Madison Inc | $50,000 |
| Federal Bar Foundation | $25,000 |
| The Jewish Musuem | $25,000 |
| CARE | $25,000 |
| American India Foundation | $10,000 |
| AFTD | $10,000 |
| Providence St Mel School | $10,000 |
| Historical Society of the New York Courts | $7,500 |
| Yes Prep Public Schools | $5,000 |
| City Year Inc | $5,000 |
| SEC Historical Society | $5,000 |
| Women in Need Inc | $5,000 |
| Children's Hospital of Los Angeles | $5,000 |
| Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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 +15% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- TYTHE YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION THE CITY OF NEW YORK3× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +22%
- TJTHE JEWISH MUSEUM2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +50%
- THTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK COURTS2× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- TLTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +34%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -54%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -63%
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.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
The association was formed to maintain a high standard of professional ethics among its members and to aid in the institution of improvements in legal education and to provide information to the public in laws relating to patents,…
Iaf's purpose is to conduct research and publicize findings concerning citizen's attitudes about economic options confronting america. iaf is devoted to fostering a robust and democratic debate about ideas that will shape our country's…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Law Firm Antiracism Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Women in the Black New York 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 38 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.
62 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. 62 of the 68 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 LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK COURTS ↗
- Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTH CAROLINA LEGAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Office of the Appellate Defender ↗
- Who funds Manhattan University ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
- Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
- Who funds South Asian Americans Leading Together ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Bar Association ↗
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: The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Tides Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · Equal Justice Works · The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Dla Piper Foundation · Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation · The Skadden Foundation · Quinn Emanuel Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Sullivan & Cromwell 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
- City Year Inc — 11% 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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