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Fred R Muhs Family Foundation at a glance

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Fred R Muhs Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$103k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$248kEducation$221kFood & Nutrition$30kHousing & Shelter$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kAnimals$10kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$3k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$922k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Beloved Asheville$30,000
Manna Food Bank$30,000
River Arts District Artists$20,000
Brother Wolf Animal Rescue$10,000
Eblen Charities$10,000
Brevard Music Center$3,000
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 (FY17–23, $19k) 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%American Red Cross: $4k → 10%American Red Cross: $3k → 10%American Red Cross: $3k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 10%American Red Cross: $3k → 10%American Red Cross: $3k → 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$273k · 7 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -99% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$273k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-99%

Still filing today

86%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHousing & 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

  • TJ
    The Junior Center of Art and Science
    7× · 2017–2023 · $95k · revenue +42%
  • TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +23%
  • TU
    THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $23k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $64k · revenue -99%
  • AS
    Asheville Symphony Society Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • RN
    REBUILD NORTH BAY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -100%
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
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
2
Menlo School

Menlo school's mission is to empower students to explore and expand their interests, reach their fullest potential, develop the skills necessary for success in college, and become ethical, responsible, and engaged members of ever wider…

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3
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
6
American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…

Social Science
7
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
8
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
10
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra

The mission of berkeley symphony is to celebrate our unique and diverse community through music-creating live performances and educational programs to engage the curiosity, spirit, and intellect of our audiences.

Arts & Culture
11
Ojai Festivals Ltd

The ojai music festival serves as a creative music laboratory for pioneering new works,championing adventurous programming, and working with today's emerging artists with events during the year and the ojai music festival serves as a…

Arts & Culture
12
Midsummer Mozart Festival

The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; the most unlike its peers is River Arts District Artists 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

15 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. 15 of the 21 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $120,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR…The Junior Center of Art and Science: $95,000 · EducationThe Junior Center of Art and ScienceTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $26,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE: $64,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTEUniversity of California Regents: $52,000 · OtherUniversity of California Re…Eblen Charities: $10,000 · OtherEblen Charities+5 more: $11,000 · Other+5 moreSOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF CALIF…SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $23,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SY…River Arts District Artists Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRiver Arts Distr…Asheville Symphony Society Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAsheville Sympho…MANNA FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $18,500 · Human ServicesBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsREBUILD NORTH BAY: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Education$263,500Other$137,000Arts & Culture$83,500Food & Nutrition$30,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Human Services$18,500Animals$10,000Community Improvement$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $120,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Junior Center of Art and Science: $95,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE: $64,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS: $35,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $23,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRiver Arts District Artists Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $18,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAsheville Symphony Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Fred R Muhs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred R Muhs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fred R Muhs Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fred R Muhs Family Foundation 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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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