New Jersey · Private foundation
Helen Mull 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $338,071
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $338,071
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 5
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Helen Mull Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $304k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $1.8M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS | $2,007,371 | 6 | 4% |
| Woodland Park Zoological Society | $2,007,370 | 6 | 1% |
| The Humane Society for Seattleking County | $2,007,370 | 6 | 3% |
| Point Defiance Zoological Society | $2,007,370 | 6 | 27% |
| Humane Society for Tacoma Pierce County Society Prevention Cruelty Animals | $642,460 | 2 | 3% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Helen Mull Foundation
- How much does Helen Mull Foundation give?
- Helen Mull Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $1,690,355 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Helen Mull Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
- Who are Helen Mull Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS ($2.0M), Woodland Park Zoological Society ($2.0M), The Humane Society for Seattleking County ($2.0M).
- Does Helen Mull Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen Mull Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen Mull Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Helen Mull Foundation based?
- Helen Mull Foundation is based in NJ.
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