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Mark & Carol Muller Charitable Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $26,125 |
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $25,052 |
| CELEBRATION FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $24,549 |
| OASIS INTERNATIONAL | $24,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| HUMANITY FOR PRISONERS | $10,000 |
| PILLAR CHURCH | $5,004 |
| FAITH FIGHTERS CHURCH | $2,500 |
| CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH | $1,282 |
| BIBLE PROJECT | $500 |
| NORTHMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $250 |
| CARRY THE LOAD | $250 |
| CORAMDEO ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES | $55 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% 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
- GRGRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +7%
- IINNOCENT2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +47%
- LSLiving Stones Academy2× · 2017–2022 · $750 · revenue +5%
Funded once
- TCTHE COLOSSIAN FORUMone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +21%
- IFInstitute for Bible Readingone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -41%
- HIHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +30%
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.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Christian publishing company
The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.
To provide a center for the study of theology and ministry in evangelical persuasion based upon the infallible and interrant inspired word of God in the bible.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Train, equip, and disciple pastors and church leaders to serve the Church and fulfill the great commission.
Bible and ministry education programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Innocent. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Theological Book Network ↗
- Who funds OASIS INTERNATIONAL LTD NFP ↗
- Who funds INNOCENT ↗
- Who funds THE COLOSSIAN FORUM ↗
- Who funds Institute for Bible Reading ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OUTPOSTS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CANEFIRE INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY ALLIES OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Living Stones Academy ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds CARRY THE LOAD ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Mark & Carol Muller Charitable Fund 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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