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Muchnic Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$587k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
86
Grants FY2025
80
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$72,500
Organizations funded a year
71 to 80
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
19
Total assets, FY2025
$3.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Muchnic Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving84$565k14%
FY202480$473k13%
FY202371$406k14%
FY202278$507k13%
FY202176$480k17%
FY202075$421k11%
FY201978$510k17%
FY201875$383k27%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$884kEducation$711kAnimals$470kEnvironment$405kHealth$397kPhilanthropy$264kYouth Development$262kHuman Services$216kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Muchnic Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Atchison Art Association$524,000948%
Earthjustice$225,00080%
Black Canyon Boys & Girls Club Inc$220,00097%
Alaska Wilderness League$150,00081%
Robin Hood Foundation$111,00090%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$75,00090%
Miss Porter's School Inc$70,00070%
Benedictine College$67,50090%
Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy$66,00070%
Bard College$63,00080%
United States Association for UNHCR$60,00050%
The Humane Society of Atchison Inc$58,86187%
HopeWest$50,00090%
East Hampton Healthcare Foundation$49,00061%
Second Chance Humane Society Inc$47,50091%
The Childrens Scholarship Fund$45,00090%
Theatre Atchison Inc$40,00081%
Atchison Foundation$37,500586%
7th Judicial District Child Advocacy Ctr Dba the Dolphin House$37,50043%
Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falk$36,00040%
African Wildlife Foundation Inc$35,00030%
Montrose Memorial Hospital Inc$35,00090%
Libraries of Montrose County Foundation$32,50094%
Community Options Inc$32,50090%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$31,0008n/a
Amber Waves Farm Inc$28,00041%
La Jolla Music Society$26,00080%
Operation Breakthrough Inc$26,00090%
Stony Brook Foundation Inc$26,00040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$25,00020%
Victor D'Amico Institute of Art$23,00072%
Drexel University$23,00040%
The Frick Collection$21,50090%
Rose Brooks Center Inc$21,00090%
Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault$21,00090%
Row New York Inc$20,00030%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$20,00020%
The J Paul Getty Trust$19,50060%
Rainbow Meadows Equine Rescue and Retirement Inc$19,25082%
The Neo Political Cowgirls Inc$18,000711%
Mount Vernon Endowment Corporation$18,0009n/a
The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc$18,00050%
Common Ground Montrose Inc$17,500412%
Boys Club of Greater Kansas City$16,00070%
Conservation Nw$15,50030%
Oxfam-America Inc$15,00010%
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc$15,00020%
Wayside Waifs Inc$15,00090%
Gramercy Park Block Assoc Inc$15,00090%
Great Plains Spca$14,00090%
The Friends of Chamber Music$14,00080%
Newhouse Inc$13,50050%
Project Most Inc$13,00050%
Pembroke Hill School$13,00090%
Valley Symphony Association$12,500515%
Habitat for Humanity of the San Juans$12,50030%
Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/A Mattie Rhodes Center$12,00050%
Inspirational Triathlon Racing International Corp$12,00041%
Hamptons Community Outreach Inc$11,00031%
Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse$10,00020%
Kansas City Anti Violence Project$10,00041%
De la Salle Education Center$10,00040%
De LaSalle Academy of Fort Myers Inc$10,00050%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$10,00020%
Magic Circle Players$10,00013%
Save The Children Federation Inc$10,00020%
Haven House of Montrose Inc$10,00041%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$10,00010%
Amberwell Atchison Volunteers Inc$9,00099%
Hampton Lifeguard Association Inc$9,00043%
Hope House Inc$8,75050%
Casa of Johnson & Wyandotte Counties Inc$8,00030%
Mother to Mother Ministry$8,0004n/a
Bruce Museum Inc$7,50050%
Clearwater Camp Foundation Inc$7,50020%
The Shepherd's Hand$7,50031%
Midwest Access Coalition$7,25040%
Amagansett Free Library$7,00030%
Robert Louis Stevenson School$7,00020%
Johnson County Community College$6,2503n/a
Guild Hall of East Hampton Inc$6,00020%
Atchison Amelia Earhart Foundation$5,50020%
The Sonoran Institute Inc$5,00010%
Best Friends Animal Society$5,00010%
Ludwig Von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics Inc$5,0001n/a
Veterans Community Project$5,00020%
Priority Africa Network$5,00011%
Fractured Atlas Inc$5,00010%
Children's Center for the Visually Impai$5,00040%
The Kit Faragher Foundation$5,00026%
Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center Inc$5,00010%
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration$5,00010%
Coexistence Story Inc$5,00011%
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio$4,50010%
Rocky Mountain Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$4,00020%
Atchison County Historical Society$4,00022%
The Harrison Public Library Foundation Inc$4,00031%
Two State Young Men's Christian Association Inc$4,00010%
Plain Sight Project Inc$4,0001n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc$4,0001n/a
East End Hospice Inc$4,00020%
Ouray County Performing Arts Guild Inc$3,0003n/a
Southampton Hospital Association$3,00010%
Uc San Diego Foundation$3,00010%
Smile Train Inc$3,00010%
Montrose Center for Arts$2,50015%
Atchison Juneteenth Committee Inc$2,50015%
The Nelson Gallery Foundation$2,00010%
Jackson County Casa$2,0001n/a
Humane World for Animals International$2,00010%
Madoo Conservancy Inc$2,0001n/a
Friends of Coast Walk Trail Inc$2,00021%
Peconic Community School$2,00010%
Ms 104 Parent Teacher Association$2,00012%
The Fund for Public Schools Inc$2,00010%
New York Center for Living Inc$2,00010%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc$1,00010%
Goat on a Boat Inc Po Box 327$1,00018%
The Foundation at Hearst Castle$1,00010%
Ma's House & Bipoc Art Studio Inc$1,0001n/a
Sound Potential Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($996k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Muchnic Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 109 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAtchison Art Association: $524,000 over 9y, 48% of budgetEarthjustice: $225,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Canyon Boys & Girls Club Inc: $220,000 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetAlaska Wilderness League: $150,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $111,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $75,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMiss Porter's School Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBenedictine College: $67,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Girls Preparatory Academy: $66,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBard College: $63,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humane Society of Atchison Inc: $58,861 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetHopeWest: $50,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEast Hampton Healthcare Foundation: $49,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSecond Chance Humane Society Inc: $47,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetThe Childrens Scholarship Fund: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Atchison Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAtchison Foundation: $37,500 over 5y, 86% of budget7th Judicial District Child Advocacy Ctr Dba the Dolphin House: $37,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetFriends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falk: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMontrose Memorial Hospital Inc: $35,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLibraries of Montrose County Foundation: $32,500 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetCommunity Options Inc: $32,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAmber Waves Farm Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLa Jolla Music Society: $26,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Breakthrough Inc: $26,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetStony Brook Foundation Inc: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVictor D'Amico Institute of Art: $23,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetDrexel University: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $21,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRose Brooks Center Inc: $21,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault: $21,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRow New York Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe J Paul Getty Trust: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRainbow Meadows Equine Rescue and Retirement Inc: $19,250 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetThe Neo Political Cowgirls Inc: $18,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetThe Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommon Ground Montrose Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetBoys Club of Greater Kansas City: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Nw: $15,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Network Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWayside Waifs Inc: $15,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGramercy Park Block Assoc Inc: $15,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGreat Plains Spca: $14,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 109.

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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.

Jeffrey & Janet Quay Charitable FoundationCO30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jeffrey & Janet Quay Charitable Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Montrose Community Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Courtney S Turner Charitable Trust · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The H & R Block Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc

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.

Compare Muchnic Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Muchnic Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Muchnic 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.

About Muchnic Foundation

How much does Muchnic Foundation give?
Muchnic Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $587,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Muchnic Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Education (17%), Animals (11%).
Who are Muchnic Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Atchison Art Association ($524k), Earthjustice ($225k), Black Canyon Boys & Girls Club Inc ($220k).
Does Muchnic Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Muchnic Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Muchnic Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jeffrey & Janet Quay Charitable Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Montrose Community Foundation.
Where is Muchnic Foundation based?
Muchnic Foundation is based in KS.

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 172 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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