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Mulcahy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$116k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Mulcahy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$116k50%
FY20244$70k50%
FY20237$125k86%
FY20224$129k100%
FY20212$110k100%
FY20207$115k100%
FY20194$116k100%
FY20186$118k100%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$378kHealth$202kArts & Culture$137kHuman Services$95kRecreation & Sports$33kCommunity Improvement$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Mulcahy Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Arizona Foundation$103,00020%
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation$65,00011%
City Center for Collaborative Learning$50,00011%
Tucson Children's Museum Inc Dba Children's Museum Tucson$50,00011%
Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services$50,00010%
Pima Community College Foundation Inc$40,00011%
Arizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Inc$33,00018%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$30,00020%
Tucson Centers for Women & Children Inc Dba Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse$30,00010%
Tucson Juneteenth Festival Committee$30,0003n/a
Az Impact for Good$25,75641%
Banner Health Foundation$25,00010%
Angel Charity for Children Inc$25,00011%
Southern Az Childrens Advocacy Ctr Inc$25,00011%
Sonoran Art Foundation Inc$15,00013%
Scholarshipsa Z$15,00014%
Easterseals Blake Foundation$15,00010%
Southern Methodist University$12,50010%
Arizona Grantmakers Forum$12,00014%
The Praxis Project Inc$10,00010%
YMCA Foundation of Southern Arizona$10,00014%
Viva Pima$10,00012%
Step Student Expedition Program Inc$10,00012%
Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc$10,00010%
Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern Arizona$6,70013%
Arizona's Children Association$5,00010%
Compass Affordable Housing Inc$5,00010%
Educational Enrichment Foundation$5,00011%
Invisible Theatre$5,00011%
Local First Arizona Foundation$5,00010%
Southern Arizona Volunteer Management Association$2,8721n/a
Amherst College Trustees$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($218k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mulcahy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $103,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Arizona AIDS Foundation: $65,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCity Center for Collaborative Learning: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTucson Children's Museum Inc Dba Children's Museum Tucson: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChildren's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPima Community College Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetArizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Inc: $33,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Centers for Women & Children Inc Dba Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAz Impact for Good: $25,756 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngel Charity for Children Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSouthern Az Childrens Advocacy Ctr Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSonoran Art Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetScholarshipsa Z: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetEasterseals Blake Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Grantmakers Forum: $12,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe Praxis Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA Foundation of Southern Arizona: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetViva Pima: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetStep Student Expedition Program Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern Arizona: $6,700 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetArizona's Children Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompass Affordable Housing Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEducational Enrichment Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetInvisible Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLocal First Arizona Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmherst College Trustees: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ46× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Absolon Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Margaret E Mooney Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Stocker Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Mulcahy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mulcahy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Mulcahy Foundation

How much does Mulcahy Foundation give?
Mulcahy Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $116,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mulcahy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Health (21%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Mulcahy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Arizona Foundation ($103k), Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation ($65k), City Center for Collaborative Learning ($50k).
Does Mulcahy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mulcahy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mulcahy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Arizona Community Foundation, Absolon Foundation.
Where is Mulcahy Foundation based?
Mulcahy Foundation is based in AZ.

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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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