How much does McMullen Family Foundation give?

McMullen Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $1,524,833 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 36 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does McMullen Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Health (9%), Human Services (9%).

Who are McMullen Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: US Naval Academy Foundation Inc ($1.0M), The Montclair Art Museum ($324k), Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ($280k).

Does McMullen Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does McMullen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as McMullen Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Investors Foundation Inc.

Where is McMullen Family Foundation based?

McMullen Family Foundation is based in NJ.

McMullen Family Foundation

McMullen Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$225k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$2.6MHealth$443kHuman Services$442kArts & Culture$434kCommunity Improvement$360kReligion$188kRecreation & Sports$151kYouth Development$137kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $59k
$10k–50k13 grants · $274k
$50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$225,000
THE MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY	$200,000
US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION	$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
MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY	$50,000
THE SALAVATION ARMY MONTCLAIR CITADEL	$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

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 (FY21–25, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.5M · 39 repeat orgs$558k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

-3%

Still filing today

64%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

UN
US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
5× · 2021–2025 · $324k · revenue +2%
ML
MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
5× · 2021–2025 · $280k · revenue +52%

Funded once

WI
WEBB INSTITUTE
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -3%
MH
MONTCLAIR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue -55% · 72% of their budget
MF
Montclair Foundation Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +92%

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.

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education

Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Molloy University

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,…

Education

Marion P Thomas Charter School

The charter schools mission is to prepare newarks next generation of children to be intelectually, emotionally, socially and financially responsible citizens.

Education

Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

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…

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University of Mount Saint Vincent

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)

Education

Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture

Montgomery Academy

K-12 school serving students with special needs.

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Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattan University

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…

Education

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montclair State University Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 70 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)

38/38

Grantees still filing

27/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,897,500Other$1,818,500Human Services$620,499Arts & Culture$434,000Philanthropy$130,000Youth Development$70,000Recreation & Sports$47,500

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ36.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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