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The Mulholland 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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$985kEducation$132kArts & Culture$50kReligion$44kAnimals$28kHuman Services$23kCrime & Legal$6kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO$25,000
ORDER OF QUETZALCOATL PLUMED SERPENT$25,000
POPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
ALZAFAR SHRINE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$16,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$15,000
SAINTS PETER AND PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST$10,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS$7,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC NURSES$7,000
KOVAR$5,000
PHOENIX RISING NETWORK INC$2,500
THERAPEUTIC RECREATING GROUP$1,000
VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KOVAR: $5k → 7%KOVAR: $5k → 8%KOVAR: $5k → 8%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

WA
NY
OH
PA
CO
MO
VA
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$1.1M
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+84%

Still filing today

38%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    6× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +31%
  • KC
    KOVAR CORPORATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +31%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • JP
    JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $22k
  • KO
    KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 4183
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +84%
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
St Peter Catholic

St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.

Education
2
Christian Unified Schools of San Diego

Recognizing the preeminence of christ, partnering with parents, christian unified schools of san diego (cussd) teaches students to think, learn, and live from a biblical worldview by integrating god and his word as the primary source of…

Education
3
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
4
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
5
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
6
Catholic Union of Texas the Kjt

Provide a source of home mortgages and life insurance for members of the society

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7
Our Sunday Visitor Inc

Our sunday visitor's mission is to serve the church by providing catholics with materials that will strengthen their relationship with christ, deepen their commitment to the church and help them to see the world through the eyes of faith.

Religion
8
The King's Christian School

The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…

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9
Buckner International

To provide management and administrative support for tax-exempt related entities.

Human Services
10
St Andrew's Episcopal School

To nurture a diverse community in the episcopal tradition, fostering spiritual growth, moral responsibility and academic excellence, and artistic and athletic pursuits, while preparing for a life of service to our community and the world.

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11
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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12
Central Texas Christian School Inc

To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mark's School of Texas; 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

12 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. 12 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHRINER HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $724,000 · OtherSHRINER HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENALZAFAR SHRINE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $174,000 · OtherALZAFAR SHRINE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL1836 ALAMO DE AZTLAN TEOCALLI: $50,000 · Other+23 more: $215,790 · Other+23 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $56,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthPope John Paul II High School: $20,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $6,000 · EducationKOVAR CORPORATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO: $6,000 · Civil RightsUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $4,500 · Public BenefitYOUNG LIFE: $4,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,163,790Health$57,000Education$26,000Human Services$15,000Civil Rights$6,000Public Benefit$4,500Youth Development$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $56,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINTS PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST: $30,650 over 2y, 18% of budgetKOVAR CORPORATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $7,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBulverde Area Humane Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds SAINTS PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Pope John Paul II High School ↗
  • Who funds KOVAR CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Bulverde Area Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds THERAPEUTIC RECREATION GROUP ↗

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Mulholland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mulholland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Mulholland Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Mulholland 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.

    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 34 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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