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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHARDSON CENTER | $25,000 |
| BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,000 |
| ARTS SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| SARASOTA OPERA | $14,500 |
| ELMWOOD FRANKLIN SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| INVESTIGATIVE POST | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO & ERIE CO | $10,000 |
| EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HARVEST HOUSE | $3,000 |
| BUFFALO SEMINARY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| STRATFORD FESTIVAL OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER | $1,000 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FUND | $1,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +18% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- NSNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO2× · 2020–2022 · $145k · revenue +34%
- ATASOLO THEATRE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +46%
- ESELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- BHBUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INCone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -90%
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALOone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -5%- WCWNED CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives through programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.
The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…
To foster a better quality of life in buffalo and the western new york region.
Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.
Artpark & company fosters a transformative world of artistic engagement that explores the human experience, cultivates creativity, and encourages curiosity. our work is informed by a long tradition of discovery, an expectation of artistic…
The lipsey architecture center buffalo (the center) explores excellence in architecture and city planning as demonstrated by buffalo's outstanding architectural heritage. located in the richardson olmstead complex, the center will provide…
Challenging, educating and entertaining pittsburgh audiences by providing high quality theatre at reasonable prices, while focusing on irish, english and classical works.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Buffalo and Erie County and the most unlike its peers is A Home of My Own Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 77 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 NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDEN THEATER ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE POST INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC HERITAGE COUNCIL OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOREST LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC ↗
- Who funds ROAD LESS TRAVELED PRODUCTIONS LTD ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds HITS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds MEDAILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds One Symphony Circle Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds UJIMA COMPANY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CITRS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS SERVICES INITIATIVE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds A HOME OF MY OWN 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: 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
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 Mulroy 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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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