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Kullman Family Foundation at a glance

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Kullman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$825k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$2.6MArts & Culture$750kHealth$720kYouth Development$300kFood & Nutrition$125kReligion$125kPhilanthropy$120kCommunity Improvement$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $675k
$35,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$200,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$125,000
TOWER HILL SCHOOL$100,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE$100,000
HAGLEY MUSEUM & LIBRARY$100,000
DELAWARE ART MUSEUM$50,000
PARADIGM FOR PARITY INC$35,000
NATIVE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES PROJECT INC$30,000
PHILABUNDANCE$25,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$25,000
LONGWOOD GARDENS INC$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DEVELOPMENT$10,000
DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARADIGM FOR PARITY INC: $35k → 9%PARADIGM FOR PARITY INC: $25k → 9%PARADIGM FOR PARITY INC: $25k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DELAWARE INC: $20k → 10%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

IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 14 repeat orgs$975k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

$3.3M
$675k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

86%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • TH
    TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +31%
  • Northwestern University
    5× · 2019–2024 · $500k · revenue +34%
  • DA
    DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $400k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • UU
    Upstream USA Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -32%
  • TD
    THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -83%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH ON THE BRANDYWINE
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
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
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
University of Delaware

The university of delaware is a major research university dedicated to cultivating learning, advancing knowledge, and fostering the exchange of ideas through teaching, research and public service.

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
6
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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9
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
10
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
11
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc; the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens 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

29 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. 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
14/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $1,000,000 · EducationTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $800,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+2 more: $55,000 · EducationJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH: $320,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CENTER F…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH: $205,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CENTER …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $150,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE I…SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC: $100,000 · OtherSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INCST JOSEPH ON THE BRANDYWINE: $75,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE OF ZOO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherURSULINE ACADEMY INC: $50,000 · OtherST MARY MAGDALEN: $50,000 · OtherTHOMAS JEFFERSON HOSPITAL: $50,000 · OtherTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUND…PARADIGM FOR PARITY: $85,000 · OtherPARADIGM FOR PARITYHIAS INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $50,000 · Other+9 more: $110,000 · Other+9 moreDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE ART MUS…The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureThe Henry Franci…Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureEleutherian Mill…DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY: $100,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE THEATRE…+2 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNorthwestern University: $500,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwester…TEEN WAREHOUSE INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentUpstream USA Inc: $100,000 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $25,000 · HealthFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$1,980,000Other$1,445,000Arts & Culture$720,000Recreation & Sports$500,000Youth Development$150,000Health$125,000Food & Nutrition$125,000

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 budgetTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $1,000,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $800,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC: $400,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEEN WAREHOUSE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUpstream USA Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC: $100,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY: $100,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetPARADIGM FOR PARITY: $85,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHIAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOTA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DELAWARE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLONGWOOD GARDENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE WILD LANDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRECISION INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Marmot FoundationCrestlea Foundation I…United Way of DelawareWelfare Foundation IncWakefield Family Fund…Nor' Easter Foundatio…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Stratus FoundationEllason Downs Perpetu…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE33.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Marmot Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Welfare Foundation Inc · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Stratus Foundation · Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust

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 Kullman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kullman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Teen Warehouse Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Delaware Theatre Company: 8% of income from government
  • Delaware Art Museum Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Serviam Girls Academy Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Tower Hill School Association: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home