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Emil Muller Foundation Inc at a glance

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Emil Muller Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$422k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$267k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MEnvironment$362kArts & Culture$327kAnimals$189kHousing & Shelter$145kYouth Development$103kPhilanthropy$82kRecreation & Sports$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $267k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Center for Youth Services: $30k → 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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 12 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
21

Total granted

$1.9M
$347k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+38%

Still filing today

92%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • FL
    FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $873k · revenue +417%
  • RM
    ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $254k · revenue +31%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    4× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Greater Rochester
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Wayne County
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • BG
    BLUEPRINT GENEVA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue +258% · 29% of their budget
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
Genesee Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
2
Woodstock Land Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
3
Genesee Valley Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
4
The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

Environment
5
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
6
Kalamazoo Nature Center

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.

Environment
7
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
8
Westchester Land Trust Inc

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…

Environment
9
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

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…

Environment
10
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

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…

Environment
11
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
12
Gowanus Canal Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Genesee Country Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $872,603 · OtherFINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $110,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYUnited Way of Greater Rochester: $50,000 · OtherThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $50,000 · Other+21 more: $334,831 · Other+21 moreROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $254,000 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER MUSE…GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $45,000 · Arts & CultureGENESEE COUNTR…Rochester Institute of Technology: $210,000 · EducationRochester I…VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationVERTUS CHAR…+1 more: $7,571 · EducationSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $176,750 · AnimalsDucks Unlimited Inc: $75,000 · EnvironmentRochester Ecology Partners Inc: $45,000 · EnvironmentThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentHOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC: $34,000 · Recreation & SportsFinger Lakes Trail Conference Inc: $17,049 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF WEBSTER TRAILS INC: $2,600 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,417,434Arts & Culture$299,000Education$237,571Animals$176,750Environment$135,000Housing & Shelter$85,000Recreation & Sports$53,649

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 budgetFINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $872,603 over 8y, 11% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $254,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $210,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $176,750 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC: $85,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRochester Ecology Partners Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC: $34,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBLUEPRINT GENEVA INC: $32,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE CORN HILL WATERFRONT & NAVIGATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFinger Lakes Trail Conference Inc: $17,049 over 1y, 3.8% of budget441 Ministries Beechwood Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAPROOT COLLECTIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCanandaigua Lake Watershed Association: $8,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $7,571 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Rochester Area Commun…Esl Charitable Founda…Max and Marian Farash…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Greater Rochester Hea…United Way of Greater…The Guido and Ellen P…Rochester Area Commun…Paychex Charitable Fo…The Florence M Muller…Finger Lakes Area Com…William & Sheila Kona…
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY36.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Emil Muller Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emil Muller Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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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    How do I get to Emil Muller Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Emil Muller Foundation Inc 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 38 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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