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The Hilda Mullen 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.

$589k
Granted FY2018
28
Grants FY2018
21
Organizations funded FY2018
24%
First-time grantees FY2018
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100% of The Hilda Mullen Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Hilda Mullen Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $589k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

23
’17
17
’18
0
’19
0
’20
0
’21
4
’22
1
’23
1
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 27
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
7
Total assets, FY2018
$7.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 24% of the organizations The Hilda Mullen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201821$514k24%
FY201727$586kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$8.6MInternational$2.2MCivil Rights$837kEducation$370kFood & Nutrition$115kArts & Culture$91kCrime & Legal$65kHuman Services$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DC
MS
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($353k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hilda Mullen Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $2,005,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew York Civil Liberties Union Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetInteract Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPhysicians for Human Rights Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWeavers Way Community Programs: $80,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe Second Stage Theatre Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOutright International: $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNational Partnership for Women and Families: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLibraries Without Borders: $40,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetMississippi Center for Justice: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSwarthmore College: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWest Side Center for Community Life: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetT'Ruah: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Center for Victims of Torture: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael Policy Forum Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCitizens Committee for Children of New York Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe New School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVera Institute of Justice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRamapo for Children Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 26.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA12.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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About The Hilda Mullen Foundation

How much does The Hilda Mullen Foundation give?
The Hilda Mullen Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $588,500 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Hilda Mullen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (70%), International (18%), Civil Rights (7%).
Who are The Hilda Mullen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Human Rights Watch Inc ($2.0M), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($400k), New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation ($150k).
Does The Hilda Mullen Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hilda Mullen 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 The Hilda Mullen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Hilda Mullen Foundation based?
The Hilda Mullen 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 39 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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