· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE MULLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $125,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| REPRESENT US | $50,000 |
| NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| THE HEADSTRONG PROJECT | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| CABINET OF CURIOSITY | $5,000 |
| THE 1909 FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRESH RX | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +45% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $769k · revenue +45%- PBPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $433k · revenue +80%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- WFWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY - ATHLETICSone grant, 2017 · $44k
- FOFRIENDS OF NASSAU COUNTY RECREATION INC aka NASSAU PARKS CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -13%
- TNTHE NANTUCKET PROJECT ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +425%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nantucket Project Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 45 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Recreation Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NASSAU COUNTY RECREATION INC aka NASSAU PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Cabinet of Curiosity Inc NFP ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NANTUCKET PROJECT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds Kieve Wavus Education Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH RX INC ↗
- Who funds THE 1909 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Inc of Palm Beach County ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEED GLOBAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
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: 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
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 Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% 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.