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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
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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.

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 FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$8.6MInternational$2.2MCivil Rights$837kEducation$370kFood & Nutrition$115kArts & Culture$91kCrime & Legal$65kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2018 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $303k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL$150,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$60,000
INTERACT$50,000
OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL$35,000
LIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS$30,000
CHESTER FUND$25,000
FOOD MOXIE$25,000
SECOND STAGE THEATRE$25,000
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES$20,000
T'RUAH$15,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$15,000
CHESTER CHILDREN'S CHORUS$12,500
GLOBAL ACTION TO PREVENT WAR$10,000
THE MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE$10,000
FOOD MOXIE$10,000
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 (FY17–17, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JUDITH CREED HOMES FOR ADULT INDEPENDENCE: $25k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DC
MS
AL

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 18 repeat orgs$892k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
11

Total granted

$2.9M
$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+39%

Still filing today

83%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’22’23’24
InternationalCivil RightsCrime & LegalArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +10%
  • II
    INTERACT INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +62%
  • TS
    THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +69%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +39%
  • SU
    SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY -SCHOLARSHIPS
    one grant, 2017 · $50k

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
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
2
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
3
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
4
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
5
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
6
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
7
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
8
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
9
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
10
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Youth CampsFood Pantries & AssistanceLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Christian Missionary Organi…Developmental Disabilities …Public Library SupportCommunity Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Jewish Community FederationsLgbtq+ Community Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr15%39%35–55yr17%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr17%88%20–35yr15%4%35–55yr17%5%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,128

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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 39 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
26/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $8,501,170 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more — $50,000 · PhilanthropyHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $2,005,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH I…PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $100,000 · International+4 more — $130,000 · International+4 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · Civil RightsNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Civil RightsINTERACT INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsRUTGERS LAW SCHOOL — $200,000 · OtherCHESTER FUND — $72,500 · OtherSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY -SCHOLARSHIPS — $50,000 · OtherOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL — $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES — $40,000 · OtherCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC — $20,000 · OtherTHEATER TECTONIC PROJECT — $20,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE — $35,000 · OtherJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE — $25,000 · Other+8 more — $63,500 · OtherLIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS — $40,000 · EducationSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $35,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 · EducationThe New School — $15,000 · EducationWEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $70,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$8,551,170International$2,235,000Civil Rights$710,000Other$571,000Education$120,000Youth Development$115,000Arts & Culture$73,000

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $8,501,170 over 7y, 0.0% of 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 budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINTERACT INC — $100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS — $80,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetLIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS — $40,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetT'RUAH — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe New School — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $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
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.

National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 The Hilda Mullen 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 39 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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