· Private foundation
The Mullen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $156,000 |
| AMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE | $18,900 |
| LITTLE SMILES | $12,500 |
| WALDRON MERCY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SAINT MARY MAGDALEN PARISH | $10,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| IRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CATHIOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| WEST CATHOLIC PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of your 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 +25% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- NUNEUMANN UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2021 · $158k · revenue +14%
- SJSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2021 · $101k · revenue +22%
- LSLittle Smiles (PA) Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- PHPAOLI HOSPITAL AUXILIARYone grant, 2022 · $29k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -79%
- MLMAIN LINE HEALTH PAOLI HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Gannon is a Catholic, Diocesan University dedicated to excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. Our faculty and staff prepare students to be global citizens through programs grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and…
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…
See schedule o.carlow university, rooted in its catholic identity and embodying the heritage and values of the sisters of mercy, offers transformational educational opportunities for a diverse community of learners and empowers them to…
The College is a diverse learning community that strives for academic excellence in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition through comprehensive programs rooted in the liberal arts and sciences.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neumann University and the most unlike its peers is Communities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence. 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 46 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 NEUMANN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Little Smiles (PA) Inc ↗
- Who funds IRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds OLIGO NATION ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL ATKINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Harvey Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 The Mullen 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.
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% 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.