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The Sullivan Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
2
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$9,500
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations The Sullivan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20202$11k100%
FY20184$4k75%
FY20179$28kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$19kInternational$15kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$7kCivil Rights$200Environment$100Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CO
VA
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTogether Rising: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSummits Education: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThree Bays Preservation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarlos Otis Stratton Mountain Clinic Inc: $50 over 1y, 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 8.

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About The Sullivan Family Foundation

How much does The Sullivan Family Foundation give?
The Sullivan Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Sullivan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (37%), International (29%), Philanthropy (18%).
Who are The Sullivan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation ($8k), The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network ($6k), Chai Lifeline Inc ($500).
Does The Sullivan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sullivan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Sullivan Family Foundation based?
The Sullivan Family Foundation is based in CT.

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 16 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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