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The Ralph and Virginia Mullin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ralph and Virginia Mullin 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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Animals$89kRecreation & Sports$3kEducation$565
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$285
Median grant
2
States reached
$117k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTISTRY FOR ANIMALS$2,190
RANCH LAND REHAB$285
MISS PAT'S CATS$200
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MALICATS INC: $2k → 11%PETFINDER FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%ALL PAWS INN SENIOR SANCTUARY INC: $565 → 18%ARIZONA DESERT ROTTI & PALS RESCUE INC: $2k → 19%RANCH LAND REHAB: $285 → 26%MINNESOTA VETERINARY MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS: $1k → 11%GRANITE ANIMAL SHELTER PROJECT: $6k → 11%MISSION BAY PUPPY: $2k → 11%GABBYS ANIMAL RESCUE: $1k → 18%ANIMAL HAVEN RESCUE OF BAY COUNTY FLORIDA INC: $959 → 10%LOVE IS FERAL INC: $595 → 13%RIVER ROAD RESCUE SANCTUARY INC: $1k → 10%WIGGLEBUTTS AUSSIE RESCUE INC: $1k → 13%AGAVE DOGS RESCUE: $325 → 8%ENFIELD COMMUNITY CAT PROJECT INC: $1k → 11%UNDERDOGS TO ALLSTARS: $3k → 16%R & M ROCKIN RESCUES INC: $832 → 16%BOOTS EARTIPS & TOEBEANS: $1k → 19%BLUEGRASS BULLY RESCUE INC: $400 → 15%FORGET ME NOT: $400 → 9%FALLEN H REPTILE RESCUE INC: $565 → 15%US HORSE WELFARE AND RESCUE INC: $1k → 11%MISS PAT'S CATS: $200 → 16%GRACE ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $11k → 15%TWO ROADS DOG RESCUE INC: $10k → 15%GSP HOMELESS PET FOOD: $10k → 15%TWO ROADS DOG RESCUE INC: $6k → 15%TUCSON FERAL VOLUNTEER GROUP: $565 → 15%FREEDOM RANCH: $565 → 15%ARTISTRY FOR ANIMALS: $2k → 15%LEND A BONE INC: $925 → 15%SOUTHWEST OASIS LABRADOR RESCUE INC: $615 → 15%SOUTHERN ARIZONA REPTILE RESCUE & EDUCATION: $565 → 15%MINDFUL KIDS TUCSON INC: $565 → 15%SWEET OLD SOULS SANCTUARY INC: $565 → 15%RECYCLED PETS AZ INC: $565 → 15%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

ME
MT
MN
OR
IA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
AZ
KS
NC
TX
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 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
Desert Dog Rescue Inc

Animal rescue

Animals
2
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
3
Washington Basset Rescue

Dog rescue

Animals
4
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
5
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
6
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
7
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
8
Raskels Rescue
Animals
9
Peppy Pet Rescue

rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need

Animals
10
Middle Ridge Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
11
Jl Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
12
Big Dog Rescue Inc co James & Cheryl Babcock
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Desert Rotti & Pals Rescue Inc; the most unlike its peers is River Road Rescue Sanctuary Inc. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 36 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TWO ROADS DOG RESCUE INC: $16,200 · OtherTWO ROADS DOG RESCUE INCGRACE ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $11,000 · OtherGRACE ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHGSP HOMELESS PET FOOD: $10,000 · OtherGSP HOMELESS PET FOODGRANITE ANIMAL SHELTER PROJECT: $5,835 · OtherGRANITE ANIMAL SHELTER PROJECTUNDERDOGS TO ALLSTARS INC: $2,600 · OtherMALICATS INC: $2,343 · OtherARTISTRY FOR ANIMALS INC: $2,190 · Other+18 more: $12,853 · Other+18 morePetfinder Foundation: $20,000 · AnimalsPetfinder FoundationARIZONA DESERT ROTTI & PALS RESCUE INC: $2,165 · AnimalsARIZONA DESERT ROTTI & PALS RESCUE …US Horse Welfare and Rescue Inc: $1,393 · AnimalsGabby's Animal Rescue Inc: $1,256 · AnimalsMINNESOTA VETERINARY MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS: $1,000 · AnimalsRIVER ROAD RESCUE SANCTUARY INC: $1,000 · Animals+4 more: $2,430 · Animals+4 moreDOGS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT: $15 · Crime & Legal
Other$63,021Animals$29,244Crime & Legal$15

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPetfinder Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGabby's Animal Rescue Inc: $1,256 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMINNESOTA VETERINARY MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 Petfinder Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA DESERT ROTTI & PALS RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds US Horse Welfare and Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds Gabby's Animal Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA VETERINARY MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS ↗
  • Who funds RIVER ROAD RESCUE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds LEND A BONE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST OASIS LABRADOR RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Arizona Reptile Rescue and Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds AGAVE DOGS RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds DOGS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT ↗

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.

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Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Ralph and Virginia Mullin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ralph and Virginia Mullin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Ralph and Virginia Mullin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ralph and Virginia Mullin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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