Illinois · Private foundation
The Mullen Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $565k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Mullen Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $565k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $361k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $238k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $216k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $94k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $120k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $320k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $453k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Boston University | $769,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Palm Beach Day Academy Inc | $433,300 | 7 | 1% |
| RepresentUs | $175,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Wake Forest University | $140,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc | $134,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Recreation Inc | $78,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Palm Beach Civic Association Inc | $62,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Society of the Four Arts Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($498k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mullen Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation · The Matthew & Tracy Smith Foundation · Borchardt Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About The Mullen Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Mullen Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Mullen Family Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $565,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Mullen Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Health (13%), Public Benefit (8%).
- Who are The Mullen Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of Boston University ($769k), Palm Beach Day Academy Inc ($433k), RepresentUs ($175k).
- Does The Mullen Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mullen Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mullen Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation.
- Where is The Mullen Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Mullen Family Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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