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The Susan Brenn and Gary Mullennix Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Susan Brenn and Gary Mullennix Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$54kPublic Benefit$16kSocial Science$15kHealth$12kHuman Services$12kArts & Culture$8kYouth Development$5kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,131
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRAGER UNIVERSITY$4,131
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%MERCY CHEFS: $3k → 20%SCAN INC: $2k → 12%SCAN INC: $200 → 12%YOUTH HAVEN: $2k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
IN
OH
CA
VA
KS
DC
AL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 13 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
26

Total granted

$89k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+95%

Still filing today

54%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SW
    SUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL AND FARM
    3× · 2019–2021 · $33k · revenue +5%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +16%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADV
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • F
    FGA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • C
    CFACT
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
3
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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4
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
5
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
6
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
7
The Institute for Law and Strategy

This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…

Civil Rights
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
9
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
12
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Iris Family Support Center 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

21 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. 21 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
19/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADV: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVFGA: $10,000 · OtherFGAPRAGER UNIVERSITY: $9,631 · OtherPRAGER UNIVERSITYVARIOUS QUALIFIED CHAR: $9,077 · OtherVARIOUS QUALIFIED CHARIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCFACT: $5,000 · OtherGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherYoung America's Foundation: $5,000 · OtherLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $5,000 · OtherNCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY: $5,000 · OtherHADASSAH FLORIDA CENTRAL: $3,700 · Other+13 more: $18,500 · Other+13 moreSUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL AND FARM: $33,000 · EducationSUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TO…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,300 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WA…HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETW…MERCY CHEFS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEF…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,200 · Human ServicesAmerican N…IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $2,200 · Human ServicesIRIS FAMIL…YOUTH HAVEN INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH HAVE…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL …Leadership Institute: $5,000 · Public BenefitLeadershi…THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Public BenefitTHE HEART…INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $3,000 · Civil RightsTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $2,000 · Crime & LegalCAFE OF LIFE INC: $200 · Housing & ShelterNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $110 · Environment
Other$98,808Education$43,000Human Services$17,200Public Benefit$15,500Civil Rights$3,000Crime & Legal$2,000Housing & Shelter$200Environment$110

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL AND FARM: $33,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBASIC RIGHTS OREGON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAFE OF LIFE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $110 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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 Susan Brenn and Gary Mullennix Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Susan Brenn and Gary Mullennix Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 41 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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