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.

Mary S Mulligan Char Trust

Mary S Mulligan Char Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Mary S Mulligan Char Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$278k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$629kEducation$144kHuman Services$129kHealth$37kCivil Rights$30kAnimals$25kPhilanthropy$25kYouth Development$22kOther$0

02FY2026 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k36 grants · $167k
$10k–50k6 grants · $111k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GEVA THEATRE CENTER	$35,000
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE	$21,150
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE	$15,000
ROCHESTER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC	$15,000
ABBY WHITESIDE FOUNDATION	$15,000
WRITERS AND BOOKS	$10,000
THE NEW HARMONY PROJECT	$7,500
FOOD LINK INC	$7,000
LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY	$5,400
LINWOOD LTD	$5,225
COMMUNITY CARE OF WESTERN NY	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
BOA EDITIONS LTD	$5,000
BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA	$5,000
THE POTTER'S HANDS FOUNDATIONS	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY21–26, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 41 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2026, 17 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+11%

Still filing today

76%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

GT
GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC
7× · 2020–2026 · $205k · revenue +5%
WB
WRITERS & BOOKS INC
7× · 2020–2026 · $150k · revenue +16%
Trustees of Tufts College
6× · 2021–2026 · $117k · revenue +17%

Funded once

RF
ROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME
one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue +13%
SH
SOJOURNER HOUSE
one grant, 2020 · $5k
AF
ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND
one grant, 2020 · $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.

Rochester Art Center

Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…

Arts & Culture

New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture

Rochester Repertory Theatre

The rep's mission is to provide theater productions of the highest quality that will challenge, develop and enhance the skills of directors, actors, designers and technicians, while intriguing, challenging and delighting our audiences.

Arts & Culture

Rochester Civic Theatre

The mission of rochester civic theatre is to engage community organizations through collaboration and shared resources, enrich lives through education and outreach, and elevate human connection through theatre arts.

Arts & Culture

Rochester Public Library

To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.

Education

Rochester Opera House Inc

The rochester opera house is a nonprofit performing arts organization. its mission is to entertain, stimulate and educate audiences of all ages with high quality artistic programming, and to preserve historic rochester opera house as a…

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Rochester City Ballet Inc

Rochester City Ballet's mission is to create inspiring, entertaining, and educational experiences through the art of dance while providing the highest level of artistic and technical excellence.

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Rochester Child Care Center Inc

The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…

Human Services

The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture

New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture

The Roxie Theater

The mission of the Roxie is to promote and preserve the art of film and theater while encouraging independent thought and artistic experimentation in an ever-growing community of artists and arts supporters.

Arts & Culture

Finger Lakes Opera Inc

FLO is committed to the professional creation and production of opera in Rochester and the Finger Lakes region with a roster of mainstage and emerging young artists drawn from diverse regions and backgrounds. Through engagement and…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geva Theatre Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Self Reliance New Wave of Immigrants 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

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 73 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/52

Grantees still filing

36/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$518,400Other$513,875Education$152,800Recreation & Sports$80,000Human Services$56,000Food & Nutrition$42,000Health$37,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY49.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mary S Mulligan Char Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary S Mulligan Char Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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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