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The Mullen Family Foundation Inc Fka the Donald R Mullen Family Fdn Inc at a glance

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The Mullen Family Foundation Inc Fka the Donald R Mullen Family Fdn 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2020
19
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k6 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $751k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE$400,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$200,000
DREAM (FKA HARLEM RBI)$200,000
THE FRIENDS OF GOVERNORS ISLAND$150,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$100,000
PECONIC LAND TRUST$51,000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$50,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$35,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL$10,000
USA FOR UNHCR$10,000
ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE$10,000
PARK AVENUE ARMORY$5,000
NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY$750
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GUILD HALL: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE: $400k → 17%ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE: $10k → 20%RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $10k → 28%USA FOR UNHCR: $10k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 7%PECONIC LAND TRUST: $51k → 7%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $750 → 17%DOCTORS WITHHOUT BORDERS USA: $200 → 17%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $200k → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY: $5k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $50k → 17%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $35k → 17%THE FRESH AIR FUND: $275 → 17%THE FRIENDS OF GOVERNORS ISLAND: $150k → 17%NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY: $750 → 17%DREAM (FKA HARLEM RBI): $200k → 17%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.
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 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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
6
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
8
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
9
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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10
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
11
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Animal Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INCMuseum of Modern Art: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art+2 more: $10,250 · Arts & CultureDREAM (FKA HARLEM RBI): $200,000 · OtherDREAM (FKA HARLEM RBI)THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY+4 more: $15,950 · OtherNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $200,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOU…GOVERNORS ISLAND ALLIANCE: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsGOVERNORS ISL…+1 more: $275 · Recreation & SportsPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $51,000 · EnvironmentRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $750 · EducationUnited States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 · InternationalTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · Animals
Arts & Culture$460,250Other$315,950Health$235,000Recreation & Sports$150,275Environment$51,000Education$10,750International$10,000Animals$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $400,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $51,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $250 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mullen Family Foundation Inc Fka the Donald R Mullen Family Fdn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mullen Family Foundation Inc Fka the Donald R Mullen Family Fdn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 19 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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