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Howard C Muller and Marguerite E Muller Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Howard C Muller and Marguerite E Muller Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2022
18
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$14kArts & Culture$11kAnimals$9kEnvironment$7kReligion$5kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$1kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$400
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Uptown Concerts$6,000
First English Lutheran Preschool$2,500
Maryland SPCA$2,000
Cylburn Arboretum Association$1,000
Kennel to Couch$1,000
Little Sisters of the Poor$1,000
Irvine Nature Center$1,000
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore$400
Creative Alliance$400
The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland$400
Liberty's Promise$400
Conflict Resolution Center$400
Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church$400
Its About The Kids Education Organization Inc$400
The Baltimore Museum of Art$400
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 (FY20–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Liberty's Promise: $400 → 9%Libertys Promise Inc: $250 → 9%Rose of Sharon Equestrian School: $1k → 11%Safe Alternative Foundation for Edu: $2k → 19%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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39k · 13 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$39k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+1%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Arts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • UC
    Uptown Concerts Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +46% · 26% of their budget
  • CA
    CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +169%
  • HF
    Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor
    3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • UC
    U Can Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • FE
    First English Lutheran Preschool KG
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • SA
    SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -37%
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
Baltimore Tree Trust Inc

To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.

Environment
2
Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…

Education
3
Blue Water Baltimore

To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.

Environment
4
The Waldorf School of Baltimore Inc

The waldorf school of baltimore educates and inspires children to think, act, and feel with depth, imagination, and purpose.

—
5
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc

Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.

Arts & Culture
6
Baltimore Green Space

Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.

Environment
7
Baltimore Montessori Inc

To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.

Education
8
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
9
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…

Community Improvement
10
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment
11
Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services
12
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Inc

Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parks and People Inc; the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Museum of Art. 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

20 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. 20 of the 32 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

U Can Inc: $10,000 · OtherU Can IncFirst English Lutheran Preschool: $6,000 · OtherFirst English Lutheran PreschoolFirst English Lutheran Preschool KG: $5,000 · OtherFirst English Lutheran Preschool KGPARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $1,000 · Other+15 more: $6,900 · Other+15 moreUptown Concerts Inc: $8,000 · Arts & CultureUptown Concerts In…CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $1,150 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ALLIANCE …BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $1,150 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM O…THE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $6,000 · AnimalsTHE MARYLAND SP…MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,900 · AnimalsMARYLAND ZOOLOG…KENNEL TO COUCH INC BOHNE: $1,000 · AnimalsKENNEL TO COUCH…CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentCYLBURN ARBO…IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentIRVINE NATUR…Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor: $4,000 · ReligionSAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY'S PROMISE: $650 · Human ServicesPAUL'S PLACE INC: $1,400 · Food & Nutrition
Other$28,900Arts & Culture$10,300Animals$8,900Environment$7,000Religion$4,000Human Services$3,150Food & Nutrition$1,400

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 budgetUptown Concerts Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHome for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor: $4,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEL TO COUCH INC BOHNE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY'S PROMISE: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP BALTIMORE INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe William S Baer School: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…The Abell Foundation …Annie E Casey Foundat…T Rowe Price Program …Thomas Wilson Sanitar…Associated Jewish Cha…James S and Gail P Ri…Ac and Penney Hubbard…Dr Frank C Marino Fou…Clayton Baker Trust
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · James S and Gail P Riepe Charitable Foundation · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust

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 Howard C Muller and Marguerite E Muller Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard C Muller and Marguerite E Muller Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get 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 · 0–50%
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.
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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.

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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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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