· Private foundation
Mulberry Essence Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $241k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $1,230,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $300,000 |
| GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE | $150,000 |
| GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE | $150,000 |
| GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE | $150,000 |
| GCI INC | $150,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $130,000 |
| PRESIDENTS FELLOW OF HARVARD | $125,000 |
| PRESIDENTS FELLOW OF HARVARD | $100,000 |
| US - JAPAN COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| US - JAPAN COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| PRESIDENTS FELLOW OF HARVARD | $50,000 |
| PRESIDENTS FELLOW OF HARVARD | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- GCGLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +24% · 85% of their budget
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +65%- UJUS- JAPAN COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- JSJAPAN SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -14%
- CSCollaborative Support Services Incone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -34%
- TCTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +10%
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.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Education and Research
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Gloria's Foundation Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 111 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds US- JAPAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds JAPAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Collaborative Support Services Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ACT OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HACKLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds GRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
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 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
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 Mulberry Essence 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.
- Northwoods Stewardship Center — 40% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Act of Connecticut — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital 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.