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Boyd and Evelyn Mullen Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$325k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$468kHousing & Shelter$438kHuman Services$340kEducation$295kFood & Nutrition$135kCrime & Legal$70kYouth Development$65kPhilanthropy$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FDN OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$50,000
STAR OF HOPE MISSION$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$25,000
THE WOMEN'S HOME$20,000
COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS$15,000
PREVENT BLINDNESS$15,000
BO'S PLACE$15,000
SAN JOSE CLINIC$15,000
THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON$10,000
CHILDREN AT RISK$10,000
HOPE AND HEALING CENTER & INSTITUTE$10,000
SPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$10,000
MAGNIFICAT HOUSES INC$10,000
BOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC$10,000
PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Guide Dogs Of Texas Inc: $25k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $35k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $20k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $10k → 16%HOMEMADE HOPE FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $20k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%Homemade Hope For Homeless Children: $15k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $20k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $15k → 16%The Womens Home: $13k → 16%Covenant House Texas: $10k → 16%THE WOMENS HOME: $10k → 16%Covenant House Texas: $10k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $10k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $10k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESSHOUSTON: $10k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $10k → 16%HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 16%HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 16%HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 16%Homemade Hope For Homeless Children: $10k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $25k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $15k → 16%THE WAY HOME ADOPTION INC: $5k → 16%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 30 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
31

Total granted

$1.5M
$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

93%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    5× · 2018–2025 · $115k · revenue +75%
  • The Houston Food Bank
    2× · 2020–2021 · $95k · revenue +36%
  • RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +3%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +151%
  • SJ
    SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -19%

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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
3
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
4
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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5
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
6
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
7
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
8
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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9
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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10
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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11
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
12
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Community Health Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is University Eye Associates. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsUrban Parks & Nature Conser…Business & Industry Trade A…Affordable Housing ProvidersCommunity Foundations & Gra…Disability Services & Suppo…Youth Development and Mento…Christian Missionary and Di…Healthcare System OperationsEarly Childhood Care & Nutr…Ethnic & Faith Community Ce…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%2%<5yr17%4%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr8%36%35–55yr8%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%0%<5yr17%2%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr8%40%35–55yr8%32%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
19%
3,802/20,379

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
38/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Houston Food Bank — $95,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOLCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $60,000 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INCPrevent Blindness Texas — $50,000 · OtherPrevent Blindness TexasPREVENT BLINDNESS — $25,000 · OtherSAN JOSE CLINIC — $25,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $35,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Hou…SAMARITAN'S PURSE — $25,000 · OtherBo's Place — $25,000 · Other+18 more — $225,000 · Other+18 moreGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $55,000 · Human ServicesGuide Dogs of Texas I…THE WOMEN'S HOME — $52,500 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOMEHomemade Hope for Homeless Children — $45,000 · Human ServicesHomemade Hope for Hom…COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $45,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXASKIDS' MEALS INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCTHE FURNITURE BANK — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE FURNITURE BANKAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $35,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCaring for Children Foundation of Texas Inc — $15,000 · Human Services+5 more — $38,000 · Human Services+5 moreSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $325,000 · Housing & ShelterSTAR OF HOPE MISSI…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC — $90,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD …THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthTHE SUNSHINE KID…THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON — $40,000 · HealthTHE BEACON OF DO…Magnificat Houses Inc — $20,000 · HealthMagnificat House…SPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $20,000 · HealthSPRING BRANCH CO…THE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE — $20,000 · HealthTHE OSTEOSARCOMA…CINCO CHARITIES INC — $15,000 · HealthOUTREACH CENTER OF WEST HOUSTON INC — $15,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann Foundation — $15,000 · HealthHOUSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $10,000 · HealthUniversity of St Thomas — $115,000 · EducationUniversity of …Baylor College of Medicine — $35,000 · EducationBaylor College…MT San Jacinto Community College Foundation — $25,000 · EducationMT San Jacinto…THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUN…Good Reason Houston Inc — $15,000 · EducationGood Reason Ho…Writers in the Schools — $10,000 · EducationRainbow Youth Center — $10,000 · EducationTHE URBAN ENRICHMENT INSTITUTE — $10,000 · EducationBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropySAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyBRIDGES TO LIFE — $30,000 · Crime & LegalChildren At Risk — $20,000 · Crime & LegalChristian New Creation Inc — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCROSSWALK CENTER — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$635,000Human Services$380,500Housing & Shelter$325,000Health$295,000Education$255,000Philanthropy$75,000Crime & Legal$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $325,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $95,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $70,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $52,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPrevent Blindness Texas — $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHomemade Hope for Homeless Children — $45,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FURNITURE BANK — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBo's Place — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMT San Jacinto Community College Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHouston Hospice — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMagnificat Houses Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren At Risk — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST DOMINIC VILLAGE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION OF YAHWEH INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCINCO CHARITIES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCaring for Children Foundation of Texas Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOUTREACH CENTER OF WEST HOUSTON INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGood Reason Houston Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian New Creation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCROSSWALK CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWriters in the Schools — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHouston Arboretum & Nature Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRATION RANCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Strake FoundationThe Brown Foundation …The William Stamps Fa…Houston Endowment IncThe Medallion Foundat…MD Anderson FoundationMarek Family Foundati…United Way of Greater…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX52.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Houston Endowment Inc · The Medallion Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston

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 Boyd and Evelyn Mullen Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Boyd and Evelyn Mullen Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Boyd and Evelyn Mullen Charitable 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 68 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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