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The Mullen Family Foundation at a glance

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The Mullen Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$164k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$343kHealth$280kInternational$133kReligion$48kHuman Services$14kEnvironment$12kPhilanthropy$9kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$41,740
AMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE$27,000
LITTLE SMILES$12,500
MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY$10,000
NEUMANN UNIVERSITY$5,000
BRIGHT MINDS PROCESSING INC$5,000
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$5,000
WEST CATHOLIC PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST$4,000
BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$2,000
SAINT MARY MAGDALEN PARISH$400
Individual grant recipient$400
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT$300
MAYO CLINIC$250
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE FATHER BILL ATKEINSON FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%AMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE: $41k → 7%NEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $120k → 10%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%OLIGO NATION: $5k → 9%IRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%BRIGHT MINDS PROCESSING INC: $5k → 11%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $25k → 8%AMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE: $28k → 7%NEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 10%IRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%PAOLI HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $29k → 6%AMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE: $20k → 7%NEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $13k → 10%IRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%MAIN LINE HEALTH PAOLI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%WALDRON MERCY ACADEMY: $10k → 7%NEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%WEST CATHOLIC PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 22%IRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY OVERBROOK: $25k → 7%NEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%WEST CATHOLIC PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 22%LITTLE SMILES: $15k → 6%LITTLE SMILES: $13k → 10%LITTLE SMILES: $12k → 6%LITTLE SMILES: $13k → 10%LITTLE SMILES: $12k → 6%LITTLE SMILES OF PA: $12k → 10%LITTLE SMILES: $10k → 6%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR - HOLY FAMILY HOME: $8k → 22%AMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE: $27k → 6%ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $100k → 22%AMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE: $19k → 6%AUGUSTINIAN FRIARS: $156k → 10%AMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE: $19k → 6%AUGUSTINIAN FRIARS: $126k → 10%AUGUSTINIAN FRIARS: $73k → 10%AUGUSTINIAN FRIARS: $72k → 10%AUGUSTINIAN FRIARS: $53k → 10%AUGUSTINIAN FRIARS: $42k → 10%AUGUSTINIAN FRIARS: $29k → 10%AUGUSTINIAN FRIARS: $17k → 10%RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%SAINT MARY MAGDALEN PARISH: $10k → 10%RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $8k → 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

NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
MD
DE
DC
GA
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 15 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
29

Total granted

$1.3M
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+17%

Still filing today

60%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
HealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NU
    NEUMANN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +14%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2021 · $101k · revenue +22%
  • LS
    Little Smiles (PA) Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $86k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • PH
    PAOLI HOSPITAL AUXILIARY
    one grant, 2022 · $29k
  • ML
    MAIN LINE HEALTH PAOLI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -79%
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
University of Mount Saint Vincent

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)

Education
6
St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education
7
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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8
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit

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,…

Education
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Riddle Healthcare Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 54 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $568,270 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE: $159,650 · OtherAMIGOS DE JESUS ORPHANAGE+31 more: $186,080 · Other+31 moreNEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $162,500 · EducationNEUMANN UNIVERSITYSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $101,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVER…VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationTHE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthTHE RIDDLE HEALTH…Little Smiles (PA) Inc: $85,500 · HealthLittle Smiles (PA…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER S…+4 more: $5,800 · HealthJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $2,000 · PhilanthropyIRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $31,000 · International+1 more: $200 · InternationalWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $16,000 · Environment+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $3,000 · Crime & LegalSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$914,000Education$295,500Health$236,300Philanthropy$52,000International$31,200Environment$16,100Crime & Legal$3,000Recreation & Sports$500

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 budgetNEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $162,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $101,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Smiles (PA) Inc: $85,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $16,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLIGO NATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFATHER BILL ATKINSON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $100 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.

  • Who funds NEUMANN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Little Smiles (PA) Inc ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds IRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • 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 FATHER BILL ATKINSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗

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.

The Harvey Family Fou…Connelly FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Harvey Family FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 54 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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