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THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,000 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($78,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$249k
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
$164k
Grants received
$249k
Net assets
1/7 repeat funders

Against its field

THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $164k to it.

Operating margin100% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve2461.3mo · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
6
2

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL 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

THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.

48%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

96% of THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
DE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 236 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

James a Cullen Memorial Scholarship Fund73%Timothy J Murphy Foundation Inc70%Signal 30 Troopers Benefit Fund Inc69%The Samaritan Medical Center Foundation of Northern New York Inc69%Salla Treatment and Research Foundation Inc69%The Sally Edelman and Harry Gardner Cancer Research Foundation Inc68%Scarsdale Foundation68%New York University School of Law Foundation68%

Nationally

James a Cullen Memorial Scholarship Fund73%Robert H Mollohan Family Charitable Foundation Inc72%Cullen Children's Foundation71%The Green Halo Foundation71%Maverick Foundation70%Timothy J Murphy Foundation Inc70%Signal 30 Troopers Benefit Fund Inc69%Sarita and Claire Wright Lucas Foundation69%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,000 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($78,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $164,000 in grants to THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $78,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing