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Mike Mussina Foundation at a glance

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Mike Mussina 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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$25kAnimals$21kYouth Development$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$5kHuman Services$2kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$284k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION$5,000
YOUNGLIFE$5,000
LYCOMING COUNTY SPCA$5,000
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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YWCA NORTHCENTRAL PA: $2k → 12%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77k · 7 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$77k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+27%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentAnimalsFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PC
    PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +119%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +18%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • ML
    MONTOURSVILLE LITTLE LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +38%
  • V
    VARIOUS
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • HO
    HARVEST OF HOPE
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Lower Macungie Library

Lower macungie library strives to inform, enrich, and empower our community

Education
2
Lycoming County Library System Board

The lycoming county library system is lycoming county's free information utility, lifelong learning center, and popular materials collective.

Education
3
Wayne County Public Library Inc

Public lending library

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4
Taylor Community Library Association

Public lending library

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5
Young Women's Christian Association Greater Pittsburgh

Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…

Human Services
6
Abington Community Library Association

Public lending library

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7
Lynches River Electric Cooperative Inc

To provide the best possible electric service to all who desire it within the system service area at a reasonable cost consistent with the highest standards of service.

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8
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
9
Washington County Free Library

The mission of the washington county free library system is to continually improve our service to the public by:* providing the public with free access to library materials in a variety of formats* promoting community enrichment, economic…

Education
10
Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc

Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty

Animals
11
Wicomico County Free Library

It is the mission of the wicomico county free library to serve the people of wicomico county by supporting education, enriching lives, and building community.

Education
12
Reuben Mcmillan Free Library Association

The public library of youngstown and mahoning county connects people and communities to reliable resources that inspire learning and foster enrichment. this mission is accomplished through providing print resources, media resources,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Appalachia Horse Help & Rescue 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN RESCUE WORKERS: $7,000 · OtherAMERICAN RESCUE WORKERSMONTOURSVILLE LITTLE LEAGUE: $4,500 · OtherMONTOURSVILLE LITTLE LEAGUEAppalachia Horse Help & Rescue Inc: $4,000 · OtherAppalachia Horse Help & Rescue IncVARIOUS: $3,600 · OtherVARIOUSHARVEST OF HOPE: $3,000 · OtherHARVEST OF HOPE+2 more: $3,000 · Other+2 moreLYCOMING COUNTY SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $17,000 · AnimalsLYCOMING COUNTY SOCI…YOUNG LIFE: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFECENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENN…WILLING HAND HOSE CONO1 INC: $4,000 · Public Safety & DisasterYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$45,100Animals$17,000Youth Development$15,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$4,000Human Services$2,000

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 budgetPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLYCOMING COUNTY SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $17,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTOURSVILLE LITTLE LEAGUE: $4,500 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetWILLING HAND HOSE CONO1 INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAppalachia Horse Help & Rescue Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES V BROWN LIBRARY: $1,500 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.

First Community Found…Amazonsmile Foundation
First Community Foundation Partnership of PennsylvaniaPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · 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 Mike Mussina Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike Mussina Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 13 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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