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Mullinix Family 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Human Services$1.9MInternational$1.2MHousing & Shelter$650kPublic Safety & Disaster$212kEducation$115kArts & Culture$80kHealth$50kAnimals$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $760k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$55,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC$500,000
FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC$200,000
CENTER OF GRACE$100,000
AMETHYST PLACE INC$100,000
CROSSLINES MINISTRY INC$100,000
HILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA$75,000
ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC$75,000
GIVING THE BASICS WICHITA INC$55,000
HAPPYBOTTOMS$55,000
GLOBAL CARE FORCE INC$25,000
BAND OF ANGELS CORP$25,000
THREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES$25,000
THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC$25,000
FLOURISH FURNISHINGS$25,000
NAVARRE BEACH SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTER INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $500k → 16%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $250k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $200k → 15%CENTER OF GRACE: $100k → 5%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $55k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $25k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 13 repeat orgs$970k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$3.4M
$800k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+1%

Still filing today

85%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEducationInternationalOther

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

  • OB
    OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $825k · revenue +17%
  • FC
    FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $450k · revenue +12%
  • AP
    Amethyst Place Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $315k · revenue +384%

Funded once

  • CC
    CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -18%
  • HT
    HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +23%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
2
Bridge of Hope Ministries

Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.

Religion
3
Cornerstone of Topeka Inc

All of Cornerstone efforts are directed toward interrupting the cycle of homelessness, providing decent, safe, accessible and affordable housing of choice to moderate and low-income households, and revitalizing Topeka neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
4
Bridge Communities Inc

The mission of bridge communities is to transition homeless families to self-sufficiency by working with partners to provide mentoring, housing, and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
5
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
6
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services
7
Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
8
Kids Crossing

Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.

Human Services
9
Cross (Christians Reaching Out in Social Services)

The organization provides direct assistance and support services to residents of champlin, corcoran, dayton, maple grove, osseo and rogers, mn targeting households with low incomes and those faced with financial crisis.

Religion
10
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

11
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

12
Shelterwell Inc

Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosteradopt Connect Inc and the most unlike its peers is Three Dog Night Charities. 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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $500,000 · Human ServicesCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INCFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC — $450,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INCHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA — $275,000 · Human ServicesHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICAHAPPYBOTTOMS — $105,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMSCENTER OF GRACE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF GRACE INCOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $825,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUG…ARMS OF GRACE INC — $350,000 · OtherARMS OF GRACE INCCROSSLINES MINISTRY INC — $212,000 · OtherCROSSLINES MINISTRY INCROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $125,000 · OtherROSE BROOKS CENTER INCGIVING THE BASICS WICHITA INC — $115,000 · OtherGIVING THE BASICS WICHI…+5 more — $95,000 · Other+5 moreAmethyst Place Inc — $315,000 · HealthAmethyst Plac…GLOBAL CARE FORCE — $171,175 · HealthGLOBAL CARE F…Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $50,000 · HealthChildren's Ho…THREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES — $350,000 · Housing & ShelterTHREE DOG…HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $250,000 · InternationalBAND OF ANGELS CORP — $60,000 · Arts & CultureBASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC — $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$1,430,000Education$825,000Other$897,000Health$536,175Housing & Shelter$350,000International$250,000Arts & Culture$80,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $825,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC — $450,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES — $350,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $315,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA — $275,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSLINES MINISTRY INC — $212,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetGLOBAL CARE FORCE — $171,175 over 3y, 21% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS — $105,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER OF GRACE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP — $60,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC — $20,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetNAVARRE BEACH SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Junior League of Kansas City Missouri · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Servant Foundation · George & Ada Ultch Memorial Fund · The Curry Family Foundation · Hall Family Foundation · Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation

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 Mullinix Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mullinix Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mullinix Family 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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