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Mulroy Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$119k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 52
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$783k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Mulroy Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationCrime & LegalHealthOther
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 arriving16$119k19%
FY202428$653k36%
FY202318$187k0%
FY202236$378k19%
FY202131$299k16%
FY202052$489kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$378kRecreation & Sports$119kEnvironment$70kReligion$50kHuman Services$44kCommunity Improvement$37kPhilanthropy$32kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
VA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nichols School of Buffalo$145,00020%
Friends of the Garden Theater$100,00043%
Asolo Theatre Inc$80,00050%
Elmwood-Franklin School Inc$66,00060%
The Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc$56,00050%
Irish Classical Theater Co$55,10062%
Investigative Post Inc$50,11562%
Hispanic Heritage Council of Western New York Inc$50,00031%
Shaw Festival Foundation$50,00051%
Westminster Presbyterian Church$50,0004n/a
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All grantees of Mulroy Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nichols School of Buffalo$145,00020%
Friends of the Garden Theater$100,00043%
Asolo Theatre Inc$80,00050%
Elmwood-Franklin School Inc$66,00060%
The Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc$56,00050%
Irish Classical Theater Co$55,10062%
Investigative Post Inc$50,11562%
Hispanic Heritage Council of Western New York Inc$50,00031%
Shaw Festival Foundation$50,00051%
Westminster Presbyterian Church$50,0004n/a
Sarasota Opera Association Inc$41,00040%
Forest Lawn Heritage Foundation Inc$40,00059%
Richardson Center Corporation$35,00032%
Buffalo Heritage Carousel Inc$35,00011%
Road Less Traveled Productions Ltd$34,00034%
United Way of Buffalo and Erie County$32,00050%
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society$30,00021%
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy$30,00020%
Buffalo Seminary$28,00060%
Catholic Charities of Buffalo$25,00010%
Hits Foundation Inc$20,000221%
City Year Inc$20,00020%
Medaille University$17,00020%
Ujima Company Incorporated$15,00022%
Citrs Inc$15,00032%
One Symphony Circle Inc$15,00016%
The International Institute of Buffalo$15,00030%
Arts Services Initiative of Western New York Inc$15,0001n/a
Western New York Public Broadcasting Association$15,00010%
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc$14,50060%
Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Corporation$11,00020%
West Side Rowing Club Incorporated of the City of Buffalo$10,00021%
The Trustees of Princeton University$10,00010%
A Home of My Own Inc$10,000122%
Resource Council of WNY Inc$10,00022%
Shakespeare in Delaware Park Inc$7,00021%
University at Buffalo Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Emma Willard School$5,00010%
Center for Elder Law & Justice Inc$5,00010%
Niagara Aerospace Museum$5,00014%
The Buffalo Club Preservation Foundation Inc$5,00014%
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus Inc$4,00021%
The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation$3,00020%
Girls Golf$2,5001n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,50010%
Buffalo Niagara Choirs Inc$1,00012%
Stratford Shakespearean Festival of America$1,00010%
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($833k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNichols School of Buffalo: $145,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Garden Theater: $100,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetAsolo Theatre Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetElmwood-Franklin School Inc: $66,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc: $56,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIrish Classical Theater Co: $55,100 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetInvestigative Post Inc: $50,115 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetHispanic Heritage Council of Western New York Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetShaw Festival Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc: $41,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetForest Lawn Heritage Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetRichardson Center Corporation: $35,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBuffalo Heritage Carousel Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRoad Less Traveled Productions Ltd: $34,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetUnited Way of Buffalo and Erie County: $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo & Erie County Historical Society: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBuffalo Fine Arts Academy: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo Seminary: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities of Buffalo: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHits Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetCity Year Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedaille University: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUjima Company Incorporated: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCitrs Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOne Symphony Circle Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetThe International Institute of Buffalo: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWestern New York Public Broadcasting Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFrank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Corporation: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWest Side Rowing Club Incorporated of the City of Buffalo: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Home of My Own Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetResource Council of WNY Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetShakespeare in Delaware Park Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmma Willard School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Elder Law & Justice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNiagara Aerospace Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetThe Buffalo Club Preservation Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBuffalo Philharmonic Chorus Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Niagara Choirs Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetStratford Shakespearean Festival of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 45.

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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 Greater Buffalo IncNY57.2× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation 115319998 · The Baird Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Cullen Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation · Zemsky Family Foundation · Simple Gifts Fund

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 Mulroy Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mulroy 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.

About Mulroy Family Foundation

How much does Mulroy Family Foundation give?
Mulroy Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $118,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Mulroy Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Education (18%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
Who are Mulroy Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Nichols School of Buffalo ($145k), Friends of the Garden Theater ($100k), Asolo Theatre Inc ($80k).
Does Mulroy Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mulroy Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mulroy Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation 115319998, The Baird Foundation.
Where is Mulroy Family Foundation based?
Mulroy Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 77 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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