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William and Betty Mullis Tua Fnd Tr

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$2.7MReligion$1.7MPhilanthropy$500kHousing & Shelter$197kHuman Services$57k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$500,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$500,000
DREAMKEY PARNTERS INC$100,000
YWCA OF THE CENTRAL CAROLINAS$100,000
ROOF ABOVE$100,000
AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT$100,000
NOURISH UP$50,000
FREEDOM SCHOOL PARTNERS$50,000
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 (FY21–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $57k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $57k → 10%NOURISH UP: $50k → 10%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 6 repeat orgs$520k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$6.2M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+6%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • Davidson College
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +52%
  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M
  • UP
    UNION PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k

Funded once

  • CF
    Charlotte Family Housing
    one grant, 2021 · $57k · revenue -12%
  • HF
    Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Regiongraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $57k · revenue +108%
  • Crisis Assistance Ministry
    one grant, 2021 · $57k · revenue +6%
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
Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte

The mission of Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte is repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives.We mobilize community volunteers and contractors to provide repairs that make homes safer and healthier for…

Housing & Shelter
2
Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry

To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…

—
3
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
4
Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.

Housing & Shelter
5
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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6
Habitat for Humanity of Nc Inc

Seeking to put Gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity of North Carolina…

Housing & Shelter
7
North Carolina Housing Coalition Inc

The mission of the north carolina housing coalition is to lead a movement to ensure that every north carolinian has a home in which to live with dignity and opportunity. the coalition meets its mission by convening, resourcing, and…

—
8
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
9
West Side Clt

Create permanently affordable housing with community-centered development in West Charlotte and beyond

Housing & Shelter
10
Greater Matthews Habitat for Humanity Inc

By the grace of God, Greater Matthews Habitat for Humanity improves lives by building communities and facilitating successful home ownership with people in need of decent, affordable homes.

Housing & Shelter
11
Charlotte City Market

The market at 7th street is a mission-based nonprofit that combines culinary and retail innovation, economic opportunity, and a sense of belonging. the market: 1) incubates new food and retail businesses, 2) supports economic mobility…

Health
12
Habitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc

To build decent affordable housing in partnership with families in need and our communities. To make adequate housing a matter of conscience and action for everyone.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of the Charlotte Region; the most unlike its peers is Freedom School Partners 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, 2017–2025.

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. 11 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $2,226,458 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USAUNION PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY: $500,000 · OtherUNION PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARYYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc: $100,000 · Other+1 more: $56,615 · OtherDavidson College: $2,601,458 · EducationDavidson CollegeAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE: $100,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyROOF ABOVE INC: $184,000 · Arts & CultureCharlotte Family Housing: $56,615 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance Ministry: $56,615 · Human ServicesNourish Up: $50,000 · Human ServicesFreedom School Partners Inc: $147,615 · Youth DevelopmentDreamKey Partners Inc: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,883,073Education$2,701,458Philanthropy$500,000Arts & Culture$184,000Human Services$163,230Youth Development$147,615Housing & Shelter$100,000

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 budgetDavidson College: $2,601,458 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $500,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $184,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFreedom School Partners Inc: $147,615 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE: $100,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing: $56,615 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHabitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region: $56,615 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $56,615 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNourish Up: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 William and Betty Mullis Tua Fnd Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Betty Mullis Tua Fnd Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to William and Betty Mullis Tua Fnd Tr 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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