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Mullen Family 36 Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k4 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE DAVID A BURKE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE ATL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RAINEY ELITE SPEED | $500 |
| NICK BELL MENTORING FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +684% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TTTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $99k · revenue +684%
- OPOCONEE PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +95%
- NBNICK BELL MENTORING FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2024 · $2k
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +189%
- TVTHE V FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +91%
- MAMAKE A WISHone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
Provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
At ronald mcdonald house, we provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
To keep families close by providing essential resources and a home-away-from-home for families of critically ill children receiving inpatient or outpatient medical care at a nashville area hospital.
The organization provides a "home away from home" to families with seriously ill children, and supports initiatives to improve pediatric health.
The ronald mcdonald houses of eastern north carolina provide a temporary home, support and access to medical care for families of children who are receiving treatment from area medical facilities.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
Ronald mcdonald house alabama, inc. provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Our mission is to rebuild the lives of at-risk children and their families through educating, healing, restoring relationships, building character, and instilling hope.
To facilitate a coordinated, community response to abuse and to provide hope and support to children and families impacted by abuse
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harbor Day School and the most unlike its peers is Arians Family Foundation. 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 19 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 44 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 TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCONEE PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Orange Bowl Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Oconee Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc ↗
- Who funds EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Reclaimed Project ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds HARBOR DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Mustard Seed Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVID A BURKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds ARIANS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCKENZIE'S MOMENT INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM CENTER OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
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: Ergon Foundation Inc · Mike and Janie Jarvis Family Foundation · Pinebelt Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Rosewood Foundation · His Way Inc · Century Club Charities Inc · Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada Foundation · Walker Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Mullen Family 36 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Orange Bowl Committee 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.
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