Connecticut · Private foundation
Mulberry Essence Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Mulberry Essence Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 23 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,200
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,230,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $50M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Mulberry Essence Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 39 | $1.7M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $1.7M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $1.5M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.7M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $1.3M | 12% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $1.7M | 68% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Citizens Initiative Inc | $4,662,836 | 8 | 85% |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $3,604,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Us- Japan Council | $339,890 | 8 | 1% |
| School Year Abroad Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $120,079 | 6 | 0% |
| The Chapin School Ltd | $105,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwoods Stewardship Center | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Asia Foundation | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $53,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mulberry Essence Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Synchrony Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
About Mulberry Essence Foundation
- How much does Mulberry Essence Foundation give?
- Mulberry Essence Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $3,523,093 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mulberry Essence Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (75%), Environment (6%), Social Science (6%).
- Who are Mulberry Essence Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Global Citizens Initiative Inc ($4.7M), Phillips Exeter Academy ($3.6M), Us- Japan Council ($340k).
- Does Mulberry Essence Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mulberry Essence Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mulberry Essence Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mulberry Essence Foundation based?
- Mulberry Essence Foundation is based in CT.
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