Texas · Private foundation
Mary S Mulligan Char Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $278k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2026
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 6
- Total assets, FY2026
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 29% of the organizations Mary S Mulligan Char Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 41 | $273k | 41% |
| FY2025 | 38 | $251k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $195k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $159k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $161k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $177k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $180k | 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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geva Theatre Center Inc | $205,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Writers & Books Inc | $150,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $117,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Abby Whiteside Foundation Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 43% |
| Rochester Fringe Festival Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 2% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $45,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Boa Editions Ltd | $34,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Dimitri House Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Genesee Country Museum | $23,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Push Physical Theatre Inc | $22,500 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($213k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mary S Mulligan Char Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · The Polisseni Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Alstom Signaling Foundation Inc · The Guido and Ellen Palma Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Mary S Mulligan Char Trust
- How much does Mary S Mulligan Char Trust give?
- Mary S Mulligan Char Trust reported 42 grants totaling $277,775 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does Mary S Mulligan Char Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Education (13%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Mary S Mulligan Char Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Geva Theatre Center Inc ($205k), Writers & Books Inc ($150k), Trustees of Tufts College ($117k).
- Does Mary S Mulligan Char Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary S Mulligan Char Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mary S Mulligan Char Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation.
- Where is Mary S Mulligan Char Trust based?
- Mary S Mulligan Char Trust is based in TX.
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