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Edward J Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation at a glance

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Edward J Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$332k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$13MHealth$5.5MScience & Tech$2.2MRecreation & Sports$135k
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+1 grant · $332k
$75,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$332,000
HARVARD$125,000
ROCKEFELLER$125,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN CANCER CENTER$125,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$125,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$125,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$100,000
HARVARD$100,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$100,000
CALTECH$100,000
BAYLOR$100,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES$75,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$75,000
STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH$75,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE: $120k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $200k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $120k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $120k → 22%UC BERKELEY: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $120k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $120k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN: $120k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS -SOUTHWESTERN: $200k → 14%BAYLOR: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $120k → 14%STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $120k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $653k → 21%EMORY: $120k → 14%CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY: $120k → 17%University of Washington SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $120k → 9%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $200k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $100k → 11%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $120k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- BERKELEY: $100k → 10%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $332k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $332k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $332k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $304k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $304k → 21%HARVARD: $125k → 8%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $304k → 21%HARVARD: $125k → 8%MEMORIAL SLOAN CANCER CENTER: $125k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $304k → 21%MEMORIAL SLOAN CANCER CENTER: $125k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $200k → 21%UCLA: $120k → 14%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $120k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $125k → 21%ROCKEFELLER: $125k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $125k → 21%ROCKEFELLER: $125k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $120k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $120k → 14%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $120k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $120k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $120k → 21%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $125k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $125k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $120k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $120k → 17%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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
TN
NC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Edward J Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 33% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 30%.

Edward J Mallinckrodt Jr Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 38 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
15

Total granted

$17M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+24%

Still filing today

32%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k 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
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.4M · revenue +76%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $845k · revenue +14%
  • NY
    New York University
    6× · 2018–2023 · $480k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +8%
  • BU
    BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2017 · $120k
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $120k
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
3
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
4
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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11
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
12
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is North Carolina State. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 63 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $6,426,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $845,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $725,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeNew York University: $480,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $420,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $400,000 · Education+12 more: $2,455,000 · Education+12 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $775,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUCLA: $480,000 · OtherUCLAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $450,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS -SOUTHWESTERN: $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- BERKELEY: $360,000 · OtherBAYLOR: $300,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $300,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $280,000 · Other+27 more: $3,872,000 · Other+27 moreWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $405,000 · HealthSTOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $255,000 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $180,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc: $75,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $75,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthNorthwestern University: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTH CAROLINA STATE: $60,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$11,751,000Other$7,817,000Health$992,000Recreation & Sports$135,000

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 budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $6,426,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $845,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $725,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $480,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $420,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $405,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $360,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALTECH Y: $300,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $255,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMORY GROUP RETURN: $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $120,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE: $60,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ZEBRAFISH SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE CALTECH Y ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EMORY GROUP RETURN ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Edward J Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward J Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Edward J Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edward J Mallinckrodt Jr 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 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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