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Cull Family 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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$104kHealth$70kHuman Services$20kFood & Nutrition$4kEducation$4kCivil Rights$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PETER'S CHURCH$14,300
MT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM$4,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA$4,000
STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL$2,000
THE CARDINAL'S APPEAL ARCHDIOCESE O$1,900
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCE$1,500
MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS$1,000
BENEDICTINE SISTERS OF THE SACRED H$1,000
USO$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$500
THE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION$500
GUEST HOUSE$500
MARYVILLE ACADEMY$500
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$500
ST PROCOPIUS ABBEY$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $500 → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $500 → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $500 → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $500 → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $500 → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $500 → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $500 → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $250 → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $250 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
NE
MD
KS
TN
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$254k · 27 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
10

Total granted

$254k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+47%

Still filing today

44%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +145%
  • GH
    GUEST HOUSE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • MA
    Maryville Academy
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • FM
    FRANCISCAN MISSIONS
    one grant, 2022 · $400
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE
    one grant, 2022 · $300
  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    one grant, 2021 · $200 · revenue +19%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
11
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
12
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PETER'S CHURCH: $102,250 · OtherST PETER'S CHURCHMT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $34,000 · OtherMT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEMTHE CARDINAL'S APPEAL ARCHDIOCESE O: $11,700 · OtherTHE CARDINAL'S APPEAL ARCHDIOCESE OUSO: $9,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCE: $8,500 · OtherMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $8,500 · Other+20 more: $32,850 · Other+20 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $29,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…GUEST HOUSE INC: $4,500 · HealthGUEST HOUSE INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $1,300 · Health+3 more: $2,900 · Health+3 moreMaryville Academy: $4,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $200 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $2,600 · Community ImprovementTHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCITY HARVEST INC: $1,300 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,100 · Food & NutritionSTEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL: $2,000 · Education
Other$206,800Health$38,200Human Services$4,200Community Improvement$2,600Philanthropy$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,400Education$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $29,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGUEST HOUSE INC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville Academy: $4,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $2,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Maryville Academy ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cull Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cull Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    2report 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
    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 39 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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