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Mullins Family Foundation at a glance

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Mullins 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.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$27kHealth$19kRecreation & Sports$17kHuman Services$17kArts & Culture$14kEducation$8kHousing & Shelter$5kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$379k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER$10,000
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION$5,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTE$2,500
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS$2,000
CAN'D AID$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PINE PLAINS MEMORIAL HALL: $10k → 9%CAN'D AID: $5k → 12%CAN'D AID: $5k → 12%CAN'D AID: $5k → 12%CAN'D AID: $2k → 12%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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78k · 8 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$78k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+10%

Still filing today

75%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NM
    NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +19%
  • CA
    Can'd Aid
    4× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +1%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    2× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • PP
    PINE PLAINS MEMORIAL HALL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -10%
  • VM
    VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • RM
    RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +91%
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.

1
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.

Environment
6
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
7
National Ecological Observatory Network Inc

To enable understanding and forecasting of the impacts of climate change, land-use change, and invasive species on continental-scale ecology by providing support for infrastructure and consistent methodologies to support research and…

Recreation & Sports
8
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
9
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
10
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
11
Great Pond Mountain Conservation Tr

Conserving land, water and wildlife habitat for the communities of northwest hancock county. protecting our legacy of: abundant wildlife habitat and biodiversity clean water rural character and scenic beauty working forests and farms…

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12
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Great Mountain Forest Corporation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Can'd Aid: $16,500 · Human ServicesCan'd AidPINE PLAINS MEMORIAL HALL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPINE PLAINS MEMORIAL HALL…VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER: $6,750 · OtherVANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNOTRE DAME CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME CATHOLIC CHURCHJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $2,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTWOODMONT CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL: $2,000 · OtherWOODMONT CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOLCHURCH OF CHRIST: $2,000 · OtherCHURCH OF CHRISTCHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 · OtherINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $2,500 · OtherINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INCGold Star Mentors INC: $1,000 · Other+2 more: $1,000 · OtherNATIONS MINISTRY CENTER: $20,000 · ReligionNATIONS MINISTRY CE…FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE W…TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $6,180 · HealthTJ MARTELL…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $5,000 · HealthVanderbilt…RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $3,769 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyGreat Mountain Forest Corporation: $2,500 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$26,500Other$29,750Religion$20,000Recreation & Sports$17,000Health$11,180Philanthropy$9,269Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONS MINISTRY CENTER: $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCan'd Aid: $16,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPINE PLAINS MEMORIAL HALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $6,180 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $3,769 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Mountain Forest Corporation: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGold Star Mentors INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNORFOLK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Lsj Charitable Corpor…Berkshire Taconic Com…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Lsj Charitable CorporationCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lsj Charitable Corporation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mullins Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mullins Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mullins Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mullins 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 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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