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Co Tua Robert Mullen Charitable at a glance

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Co Tua Robert Mullen Charitable

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.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Animals$200kHealth$187kYouth Development$155kHuman Services$155kPhilanthropy$40kCommunity Improvement$25kCivil Rights$20kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCIBOSTON (AKA UNITED SPINAL ASSN)$40,000
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES$35,000
PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES$30,000
FRIENDSHIP WORKS INC$25,000
HEARTH INC$25,000
CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AGENCY ON AGING$25,000
WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION$25,000
NORTH QUABBIN CITIZEN ADVOCACY$20,000
DAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION: $25k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION: $20k → 10%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICE INC: $10k → 8%SCIBOSTON (AKA UNITED SPINAL ASSN): $40k → 8%SCIBOSTON: $30k → 8%SCIBOSTON: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$600k · 6 repeat orgs$292k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$600k
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesReligionHealthSocial ScienceCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $160k · revenue +51%
  • SI
    SCIBOSTON INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +16%
  • FI
    FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • HH
    Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue +11%
  • BC
    BAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +10%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Victory Human Services Inc

Provide specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.

Health
2
Boston Senior Home Care Inc

Boston senior home care is committed to ensuring that culturally diverse adults and individuals with disabilities, particularly those of limited means, can remain safely in their homes and community with dignity and independence.

—
3
Central Boston Elder Services Inc

To provide home care services, referrals and advocacy to the elderly population located in the boston area.

Human Services
4
Minuteman Senior Services Inc

To help seniors and individuals with disabilities live in the setting of their choice by engaging community resources and supporting caregivers.

Human Services
5
Senior Community Services Inc

To promote independent and meaningful living for older adults through direct services and programs in the home and community.

Human Services
6
Aging Services of North Central Massachusetts Inc

Aging services of north central massachusetts provides comprehensive information and quality services so that older people, individuals with disabilities, and their families are empowered to make personalized choices to ensure a life of…

Human Services
7
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
8
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
9
North Shore Elder Services Inc

The mission of north shorb elder services is to serve the functional needs of older adults residing on the north shore of massachusetts and provide support, information, and service to them and their families.

—
10
Work First Inc

To promote the fullest development of the individual's personal growth, social responsibility, independent living and vocational development. to increase the likelihood that people with disabilities will develop relationships, increase…

Health
11
Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health
12
Hebrew Health Care Inc

The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Operation Delta Dog Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH: $125,000 · OtherPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITHHEARTH INC: $100,000 · OtherHEARTH INCSCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY: $40,000 · OtherSCANDINAVIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETYBAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC: $30,000 · OtherBAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INCWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC: $30,000 · OtherWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTICPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC: $30,000 · OtherPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INCGREATER BOSTON CHAPTER OF: $25,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON CHAPTER OF+1 more: $10,000 · OtherSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $160,000 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERV…OPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $25,000 · AnimalsOPERATION DELTA DOG INCDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · AnimalsDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMA…SCIBOSTON INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesSCIBOSTON INCWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH FARM THERA…MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMYSTIC VALLEY AGING…FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC: $75,000 · ReligionFRIENDSHI…Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital: $31,510 · HealthSENIOR CONNECTIONS INC: $25,000 · Social ScienceNORTH QUABBIN CITIZEN ADVOCACY INC: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Other$390,000Animals$200,000Human Services$150,000Religion$75,000Health$31,510Social Science$25,000Civil Rights$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $160,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSCIBOSTON INC: $95,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetFRIENDSHIPWORKS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHenry Heywood Memorial Hospital: $31,510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSENIOR CONNECTIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNORTH QUABBIN CITIZEN ADVOCACY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cummings Foundation G…Amelia Peabody Charit…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncRed Acre Farm Inc Dba…Bushrod H Campbell & …The New England Patri…Greater Worcester Com…Salem Five Charitable…Liberty Mutual Founda…Agnes M Lindsay TrustThe Pfizer Foundation…
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Red Acre Farm Inc Dba Red Acre Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Co Tua Robert Mullen Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Co Tua Robert Mullen Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 70%
  • Bay Cove Human Services Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Senior Connections Inc: 52% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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