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Mary S Mulligan Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$251k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$629kEducation$144kHuman Services$129kHealth$37kCivil Rights$30kAnimals$25kPhilanthropy$25kYouth Development$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $121k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$36,150
GEVA THEATRE CENTER$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$15,000
ABBY WHITESIDE FOUNDATION$15,000
ROCHESTER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC$10,000
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP NETWORK$10,000
WRITERS AND BOOKS$10,000
GENESEE COUNTRY VILLAGE & MUSEUM$6,000
LINWOOD LTD$5,225
BOA EDITIONS LTD$5,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER$5,000
DAVID HOCHSTEIN MEMORIAL MUSIC SCHOOL$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER$5,000
HILLSIDE FOUNDATION$5,000
JUDICIAL PROCESS COMMISSION$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $46k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SELF RELIANCE NEW WAVE OF IMMIGRANTS I: $2k → 17%HILLSIDE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HILLSIDE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HILLSIDE CHILDRENS CENTER: $5k → 14%HILLSIDE CHILDRENS CENTER: $2k → 14%ROCHESTER AREA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY: $4k → 14%ROCHESTER AREA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY: $3k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CTR: $5k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CTR: $5k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $5k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 36 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
8

Total granted

$1.1M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+21%

Still filing today

72%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
    6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +5%
  • WB
    WRITERS & BOOKS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +16%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    5× · 2021–2025 · $96k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • SH
    SOJOURNER HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • R
    RAIHN
    one grant, 2020 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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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8
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
9
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
10
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
11
White Plains Performing Arts Center

Productions

Arts & Culture
12
The Actors Center Inc

Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geva Theatre Center Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr21%23%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr14%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr21%10%20–35yr14%46%35–55yr14%35%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
10%
2,454/24,535

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC — $170,000 · Arts & CultureGEVA THEATRE CENTER INCWRITERS & BOOKS INC — $140,000 · Arts & CultureWRITERS & BOOKS INCGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM — $23,500 · Arts & CultureGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUMPush Physical Theatre Inc — $22,500 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC — $21,500 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $57,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreABBY WHITESIDE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · OtherABBY WHITESIDE FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN FRIENDS SVC COM — $62,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SVC COMAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE — $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEEBOA EDITIONS LTD — $29,000 · OtherBOA EDITIONS LTDDAVID HOCHSTEIN MEMORIAL MUSIC — $25,500 · OtherDAVID HOCHSTEIN MEMORIAL MUSICMAG UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $20,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER — $15,000 · OtherJUDICIAL PROCESS COMMISSION INC — $21,000 · Other+17 more — $120,650 · Other+17 moreTrustees of Tufts College — $96,150 · EducationTrustees of …LOTTS CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $20,500 · EducationLOTTS CREEK …Rochester Institute of Technology — $5,000 · EducationRochester Fringe Festival Inc — $65,000 · Recreation & SportsWILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHILLSIDE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Greater Rochester Inc — $7,000 · Human ServicesHILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER — $7,000 · Human ServicesSELF RELIANCE NEW WAVE OF IMMIGRANTS INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesDIMITRI HOUSE INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionFOODLINK INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester — $12,000 · HealthCOMPEER ROCHESTER INC — $10,000 · HealthROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME — $5,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$434,500Other$398,150Education$121,650Recreation & Sports$65,000Human Services$46,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Health$27,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEVA THEATRE CENTER INC — $170,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWRITERS & BOOKS INC — $140,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $96,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetABBY WHITESIDE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetRochester Fringe Festival Inc — $65,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBOA EDITIONS LTD — $29,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM — $23,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPush Physical Theatre Inc — $22,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC — $21,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetJUDICIAL PROCESS COMMISSION INC — $21,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetLOTTS CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $20,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDIMITRI HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc — $13,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetLINWOOD LTD — $12,650 over 3y, 19% of budgetThe David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester — $12,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY — $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSIDE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOODLINK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPEER ROCHESTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Rochester Inc — $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW HARMONY PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI ROCHESTER NY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSELF RELIANCE NEW WAVE OF IMMIGRANTS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFlower City Arts Center Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDZANC BOOKS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDancing Classrooms Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REHEARSAL CLUB — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rochester Area Commun…Max and Marian Farash…Daisy Marquis Jones F…United Way of Greater…Paychex Charitable Fo…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…Esl Charitable Founda…Rochester Area Commun…The Polisseni Foundat…JM McDonald Foundatio…Alstom Signaling Foun…The Guido and Ellen P…
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mary S Mulligan Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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