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McMullen Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $274k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY | $200,000 |
| THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC | $120,000 |
| MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM | $90,000 |
| SETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| THE MONTCLAIR FOUNDATION FOR VANK VLECK HOUSE & GA | $52,000 |
| THE SALAVATION ARMY MONTCLAIR CITADEL | $50,000 |
| MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| MONTCLAIR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCC | $45,000 |
| ST BENEDICTS PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $40,500 |
| SMITH CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES & URBAN HEALT | $35,000 |
| YMCA OF MONTCLAIR | $33,333 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $560k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UNUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM5× · 2021–2025 · $324k · revenue +2%- MLMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $280k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- WIWEBB INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -3%
- MHMONTCLAIR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue +24% · 72% of their budget
- MFMontclair Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +92%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
The charter schools mission is to prepare newarks next generation of children to be intelectually, emotionally, socially and financially responsible citizens.
The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…
Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
K-12 school serving students with special needs.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montclair State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Swamp Players. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
38 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. 38 of the 70 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Montclair NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOGI INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds WEBB INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKEY IN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds SMITH CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES & URBAN HEALTH PA ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Montclair Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · The McJ Amelior Foundation · Partners for Health Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Turrell Fund · American Express Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
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 McMullen Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Promise of Essex County Inc — 33% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- Montclair Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc — 2% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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