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The Hilda Mullen Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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

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17
’18
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’19
0
’20
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’21
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’22
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’23
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’25

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

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2018 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SECOND STAGE THEATRE$25,000
FOOD MOXIE$25,000
CHESTER FUND$25,000
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES$20,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$15,000
T'RUAH$15,000
CHESTER CHILDREN'S CHORUS$12,500
THEATER TECTONIC PROJECT$10,000
FOOD MOXIE$10,000
THE MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DC
MS
AL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
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

  • II
    INTERACT INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +62%
  • TS
    THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue +159%
  • OI
    OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +407%

Funded once

  • SU
    SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY -SCHOLARSHIPS
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 39 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherTHEATER TECTONIC PROJECT: $20,000 · OtherCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 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 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 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 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 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
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.

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

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 The Hilda Mullen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hilda Mullen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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.

    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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