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Thomas C&Sandra S Sullivan Foundation
The foundation makes grants to various organizations in furtherance of the foundation's supporting organization status under irc section 509(a)(3).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $243,131 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $308,131 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME | $20,000 |
| METRO CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN | $15,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA | $15,000 |
| BENEDICTINE HIGH SCHOOL | $13,131 |
| MAY DUGAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
| ZELIE'S HOME | $10,000 |
| WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO | $10,000 |
| THE CITY MISSION | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL'S COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA7× · 2018–2024 · $98k · revenue +100%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND7× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +23%
- MHMALACHI HOUSE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $55k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES USAone grant, 2017 · $100k
- AOARCHDIOCES OF SAN JUAN PRone grant, 2017 · $50k
- SJST JOSEPH ACADEMY2× · 2021–2022 · $15k
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.
Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
The mission of hope house is to provide housing solutions, support and education to meet the needs of individuals and families facing homelessness in our community.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…
The Cleveland Christian Home, Inc. exists to be a haven of hope for children, youth, and families struggling with mental illness, abuse, and neglect in Northeast Ohio.
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Magnificat Houses, Inc. offers a welcoming community where those needing housing, food and mental health programs can grow in stability, productivity and independence.
MISSION - ST. JUDE HOUSE, Inc. (St. Jude House) IS a family violence prevention center and shelter; our mission is TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND SERVE WITH JOY. Vision - St. Jude House is a catalyst in Northwest Indiana for the prevention,…
Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Bayarts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 38 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 COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILL THIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE AVENUE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ZELIE'S HOME ↗
- Who funds ST PAULS COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds BAYARTS ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF CHAMPIONS ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS NORTH AMERICA ↗
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: Catholic Community Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Reuter Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Sam J Frankino 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 Thomas C&Sandra S Sullivan 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.
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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