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Cullen Family Foundation at a glance

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Cullen Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$117k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$40k
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.

Education$282kHealth$155kFood & Nutrition$32kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$11kReligion$11kHousing & Shelter$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$40,000
BEAUMONT SCHOOL$20,000
ST BRENDAN THE NAVIGATOR$10,000
NAVY SEAL MUSEUM$10,000
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY TRUST$3,000
BENEDICTINE HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
CLEVELAND FAMILY CENTER FOR CHILDRE$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
OROC$2,500
ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL$1,500
NEAR AND FAR AID$1,500
BRANCHES OUTREACH$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%BRANCHES OUTREACH: $1k → 10%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 9%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 9%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 9%BRANCHES OUTREACH: $500 → 10%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN: $10k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN: $10k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN: $10k → 11%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

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$654k · 30 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
24

Total granted

$654k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+121%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    7× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +94%
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +58%
  • O
    OROC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOSPICE OF WESTERN RESERVE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SH
    SACRED HEART SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • S
    SHANEROCK
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating a cure for each and every multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies,…

Health
2
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
4
Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
5
Community Memorial Hospital of Menomonee Falls Inc

To advance the health of our communities through excellence and discovery, inspiring each person to live their unique, best life.

Health
6
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
7
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
8
Breakthrough T1D

Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.

Health
9
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
10
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
11
The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
12
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overlook Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Branches Outreach. 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

23 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. 23 of the 59 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEAUMONT SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherBEAUMONT SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF RUTGERS: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF RUTGERS+37 more: $173,750 · Other+37 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $109,500 · HealthEisenhower Medical Cen…OROC: $14,500 · HealthOROCTHE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC: $11,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR GEN…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,000 · Health+2 more: $6,500 · HealthMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $7,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $10,000 · EducationCHATHAM DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationSPECIAL FORCES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $8,000 · EducationDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 · Community ImprovementWoodstock Community Trust Inc: $3,000 · Arts & CultureThe Belfast Maskers: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFeeding America: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$498,750Health$149,000Human Services$45,500Education$28,000Philanthropy$16,000Community Improvement$5,500Arts & Culture$4,000Food & Nutrition$2,000

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 budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $109,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOROC: $14,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHATHAM DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL FORCES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $8,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTONE HARBOR RESCUE SQUAD INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodstock Community Trust Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJESUIT VOLUNTEERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRANCHES OUTREACH: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $500 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 Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OROC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC ↗
  • Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds CHATHAM DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL FORCES SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STONE HARBOR RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Woodstock Community Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Chubb Charitable Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Cullen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cullen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Wetlands Institute: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 59 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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