· Private foundation
Emil Muller Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Finger Lakes Community College Foundation | $267,266 |
| Rochester Museum & Science Center | $50,000 |
| Seneca Park Zoo Society | $26,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Western New York | $25,000 |
| Finger Lakes Trail Conference | $17,049 |
| Corn Hill Waterfront & Navigation Foundation | $15,000 |
| Ducks Unlimited | $12,000 |
| Genesee Country Village & Museum | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FLFINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $873k · revenue +417%
- RMROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $254k · revenue +31%
Rochester Institute of Technology4× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UWUnited Way of Greater Rochesterone grant, 2020 · $50k
- HFHabitat for Humanity of Wayne Countyone grant, 2021 · $45k
- BGBLUEPRINT GENEVA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue +258% · 29% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Genesee Land Trust preserves and protects natural lands and waterways that enhance the quality of life in the Greater Rochester region - providing wildlife habitat, locally grown food, and connections to nature.
Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…
Protection of important natural resources, open space, habitat and agricultural lands in the Genesee River watershed through the use of land acquisition and conservation easements. Continued on Schedule O. Provide planning services to…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
Create relationships & experiences that welcome and inspire people to discover, enjoy, value, and care for nature. Kalamazoo Nature Center envisions a resilient community where all people have strong interconnections with the natural world.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…
Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Gowanus Canal Conservancy advocates and cares for ecologically sustainable parks and public spaces in the Gowanus lowlands while empowering a community of stewards. We envision a Gowanus Canal and surrounding urban environment that is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Genesee Country Museum and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Gardenaerial Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Rochester Ecology Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT GENEVA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORN HILL WATERFRONT & NAVIGATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Finger Lakes Trail Conference Inc ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds 441 Ministries Beechwood Inc ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds TAPROOT COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WEBSTER TRAILS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · The Guido and Ellen Palma Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment · William & Sheila Konar Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Emil Muller Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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