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The Mulva Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $684
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $668k
- $250k+12 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSIONARIES OF THE WORD | $14,957,805 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $3,000,000 |
| ST JOHN'S MINISTRIES | $1,200,000 |
| UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $940,000 |
| PONTIFICAL NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGE | $914,400 |
| THE GATEWAY COLLECTIVE | $500,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $500,000 |
| GOLDEN HOUSE | $400,000 |
| ST GIANNA MOLLA CLINIC INC | $320,000 |
| NOTRE DAME DE LA BAIE ACADEMY | $300,000 |
| SYBLE HOPP SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| DIOCESE OF RENO | $154,435 |
| JOURNEY TO ADULT SUCCESS | $100,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 49% of The Mulva Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 52% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 7 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
- MOMISSIONARIES OF THE WORD INC3× · 2022–2024 · $15M · revenue ×19 · 98% of their budget
ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $7.0M · revenue +8%- SGST GIANNA MOLLA CLINIC INC2× · 2022–2024 · $564k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- DPDE PERE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue +58% · 37% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2.4M
- CFCATHOLIC FDN FOR DIOCESE GREEN BAYone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
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.
Food and shelter to the homeless and groceries/clothing assistance to poverty stricken households
Service agency providing comprehensive social services and community outreach programs for the entire family. st. vincent's house serves the disadvantaged, underserved and working poor population of the greater galveston community with…
Manna of life ministries, inc. is a non-for-profit faith based program dedicated to serving the homeless and destitute. our goal is to address their immediate hunger needs and ultimately, to emplower them to reverse their current situation.
Pope francis center provides holistic, transformational, solutions to people experiencing homelessness.
House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
To provide safe shelter, compassionate support, and pathways to stability for those who are homeless and most vulnerable in our community.
To provide care for the terminally ill
Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.
We are a christ-centered community of staff and volunteers that provides shelter to families.
St. gianna's place is a safe, god-centered home for pregnant women and their children. it lovingly provides comprehensive services that empower residents to grow in hope and confidence, cultivate their dedication to motherhood, advance…
To work with homeless individuals so that they achieve housing and access to supportive services. also, the organization works to prevent homelessness for marginally housed individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Gateway Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is De Pere Cultural Foundation Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 53 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 MISSIONARIES OF THE WORD INC ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds DE PERE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST GIANNA MOLLA CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Central Texas ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY TO ADULT SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA ALBA MELANIE HISPANIC COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY 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: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Joseph & Sarah Van Drisse Charitable Trust · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Weyers Family Foundation Inc · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Wangerin Family Foundation Inc · Rosemary L & John P Mortensen Foundation · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc
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 Mulva 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.
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.
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