Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation

The Sullivan Foundation was formed by the New York legislature on March 30, 1930, with the mission of promoting: "The welfare of mankind...and to continue, carry out and further the philanthropies and philanthropic aims of the late Algernon Sydney Sullivan and Mary Mildred Hammond Sullivan, and more particularly to contribute funds for the support, education, maintenance, care and training of children of any age and circumstance."

For three quarters of a century, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation has worked to perpetuate qualities reflected in the life of the nineteenth century New Yorker after whom the foundation was named.

Lawyer, devout Christian, mediator, orator, philanthropist, family man, Algernon Sydney Sullivan, in the words of a friend, "reached out both hands in constant helpfulness to men." And many were touched by him - from street beggars and Sunday school children, to the most powerful businessmen and politicians of the city. With all of them, he commanded affection and respect.

The Southern Society in now gone, but ever since 1934, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation has continued to help both students and worthy institutions. Mr. Sullivan's son George never married, and the Sullivans left no direct descendants. Nonetheless, there have been heirs - three generations of scholarship and award recipients across the South. Through them, Algernon Sydney Sullivan and his wife Mary Mildred Hammond Sullivan still live and influence the lives of others.

Board of Trustees

• Allan E. Strand, President
• Gray Williams, Jr., Vice President
• Stephan L. McDavid, Esq., Secretary Treasurer
• Thomas S. Rankin
• David C. Farrand
• Randolph V. Merrick, M.D.
• Elizabeth Hamilton Verner
• Darla J. Wilkinson, Esq.
• John Clayton Crouch
• John Hardy