Washington · Nonprofit
MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION
MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,776 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($18,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Mullen-Polk Foundation does
Mission
To provide services and advocacy for, and on behalf of, children and their families who are at risk of involvement, or are already involved, with the child welfare system in the state of washington.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Qualified residential treatment program: during 2024, Mullen-Polk Foundation continued operating the qualified residential treatment program, "our next generation," a private facility, to accomodate the needs of young people who have been recognized as moderate to high risk for behavioral and emotional health issues, including mental health disturbnce and developmental disabilities. Services offered by our next generation included: therapeutic, group and individual counseling, crisis intervention, educational programming, choices (anger management) and chemical dependency awareness, and if applicable; narcotics anonymous and/or alcoholics anonymous. Our next generation staff residential home served 17 youth ages 12-17 during 2024.
$1,084,495 spent61% of program spendingChild placing agency: during 2024, the Mullen-Polk Foundation continued to provide our licensed foster and adoptive families with the training, tools, and compassionate support needed, to give each child in their care every chance to succeed. Mullen-Polk Foundation is licensed by the state of washington as a child placing agency for family foster care, therapeutic foster care, and adoptions. During 2024, the Mullen-Polk Foundation provided recruitment, training, licensing, placement, case management and adoption services for 17 foster youth.
$508,211 spent29% of program spendingFamily resource center: during 2024, the Mullen-Polk Foundation's family resource center supported families and individuals in the community with assistance obtaining hygiene supplies, housing and transportation, connecting individuals with food banks, snap & tanf, health services, mental health services, and other immediate needs. During 2024, the family resource center provided support to approximately 300 individuals and 100 families, of which about 80 families received assistance with housing.
$182,671 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,775,377.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $7.0M (+394%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 97% · 2022 95% · 2023 98% · 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Linda Weems
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $19k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Our Next Generation II LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION?
- MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,776 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($18,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $18,776 in grants to MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION?
- MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $18,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing