· Private foundation
Mullick Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k9 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $209k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY | $750,000 |
| GIVE MERIT INC | $450,000 |
| RENAISSANCE OF HOPE | $300,000 |
| SALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICES | $155,000 |
| SALINE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $54,467 |
| KEEP GROWING DETROIT | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY NETWORK | $21,660 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN KALI BARI | $3,500 |
| BICHITRA INC | $3,000 |
| SWAJAN OF GREAT LAKES | $1,000 |
| U OF M MUSICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MICHIGAN RADIO | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| FOOD GATHERERS | $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 (FY17–24, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- GMGIVE MERIT INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +645% · 34% of their budget
- RORENAISSANCE OF HOPE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +216% · 68% of their budget
- SASALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2021 · $250k
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +195%
- HTHOT TEAM - HEROES OF TOMORROWone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate care to everyone, every time.
We are an african collaborative, purposely engaging in advocacy, dialogues and partnerships to provide access to resources and opportunities for the african community within west michigan. we want to see a united and engaged african…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
We further our initiative of sharing the beauty of fusion dance styles across Michigan and the rest of the nation through national level dance competitions and performances. Our team works to keep the ancient classical dance styles of…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
We support, through philanthropic efforts, the improvement of urological care globally by funding research, clinical education, patient education, and humanitarian programs.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Focushope and the most unlike its peers is Udayan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 66 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 GIVE MERIT INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LITERACY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KEEP GROWING DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds UDAYAN ↗
- Who funds HOT TEAM - HEROES OF TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SWAJAN OF GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds MAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL ↗
- Who funds DETROIT MALAYALEE ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Rajput-Dasgupta Family Charitable Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation 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 Mullick 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.
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.