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Mulberry Essence Foundation at a glance

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Mulberry Essence Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$16MEnvironment$1.3MSocial Science$1.3MScience & Tech$906kInternational$622kArts & Culture$164kHealth$85kFood & Nutrition$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $147k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $241k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
$5,200
Median grant
15
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
US - JAPAN COUNCIL$100,000
PRESIDENTS FELLOW OF HARVARD$100,000
US - JAPAN COUNCIL$100,000
PRESIDENTS FELLOW OF HARVARD$50,000
PRESIDENTS FELLOW OF HARVARD$45,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ANSWER THE CALL: $15k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $10k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $5k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS INC: $5k → 17%YWCA GREENWICH: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
NH
MT
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI
AL
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 45 repeat orgs$467k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
44

Total granted

$12M
$400k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+27%

Still filing today

64%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • GC
    GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +24% · 85% of their budget
  • PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +65%
  • UJ
    US- JAPAN COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • JS
    JAPAN SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -14%
  • CS
    Collaborative Support Services Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -34%
  • TC
    TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +10%
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.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
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
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Manhattanville University

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

Education
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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
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The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
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Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
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Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
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Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
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Fordham University

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.

Education
12
New York University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
54/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE INC: $4,662,836 · EducationGLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE INCPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $3,604,500 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,200,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $900,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+17 more: $475,762 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,063,786 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY+2 more: $12,500 · Community ImprovementPRESIDENTS FELLOW OF HARVARD: $1,275,000 · OtherPRESIDENTS FELLOW O…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,126,998 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVA…Individual grant recipient: $195,000 · OtherGCI INC: $175,000 · OtherHALCYON: $150,000 · Other+61 more: $743,721 · Other+61 moreUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $339,890 · InternationalSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $125,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $120,079 · InternationalTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $65,000 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA: $27,500 · International+3 more: $22,557 · InternationalJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureACT OF CONNECTICUT: $42,000 · Arts & CultureTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $17,500 · Arts & CultureNarrative Alchemy: $15,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $20,000 · Human ServicesNY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesCollaborative Support Services Inc: $50,000 · Membership Benefit
Education$11,843,098Community Improvement$5,076,286Other$3,665,719International$700,026Arts & Culture$176,500Human Services$67,500Membership Benefit$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,063,786 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE INC: $4,662,836 over 8y, 85% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $3,604,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,126,998 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $900,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $339,890 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $120,079 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER: $70,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $53,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $48,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACT OF CONNECTICUT: $42,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHACKLEY SCHOOL: $33,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHorace Mann School: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $20,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ROUSSEAU INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREACH PREP INC: $17,562 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWHALE TRUST: $16,575 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNarrative Alchemy: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTIGER HOLLOW INC: $15,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetNY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE BOAT US INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE HARVEY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESOLUTION PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITE THE WORLD WITH AFRICA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $5,133 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN EMPOWERMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

  • 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 Horace Mann School ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds GRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Fairfield County's Co…The Ford FoundationNational Philanthropi…Ibm International Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…The Bessemer Giving F…Synchrony FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Rockefeller Philanthr…Jewish Communal Fund
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY28.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
13report 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
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home