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.

Muchnic Foundation

Muchnic Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$73k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% 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

02FY2025 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k63 grants · $225k
$10k–50k22 grants · $290k
$50k–250k1 grant · $73k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ATCHISON ART ASSOCIATION	$72,500
EARTHJUSTICE	$25,000
PAWS	$20,000
ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE	$20,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION	$20,000
MONTROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$20,000
BLACK CANYON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB	$15,000
OXFAM AMERICA	$15,000
USA FOR UNHCR	$15,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER	$10,000
THE DOLPHIN HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER	$10,000
SAINT FRANCIS ACADEMY	$10,000
ATCHISON HUMANE SOCIETY	$10,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION	$10,000
THE USROWING FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.9M · 116 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

116 repeat relationships: 72 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116

Total granted

$3.9M

$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+43%

Still filing today

69%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

AA
Atchison Art Association
9× · 2017–2025 · $524k · revenue +169% · 48% of their budget
EARTHJUSTICE
8× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +82%
BC
BLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +127%

Funded once

MC
MAGIC CIRCLE PLAYERSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +43%
CF
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +29%
TS
THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +32%

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.

Boston Architectural College

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

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Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/a Mattie Rhodes Center; the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. 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

119 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 119 of the 172 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

115/119

Grantees still filing

91/119

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,356,750Education$525,000Environment$392,500Animals$252,611Youth Development$248,000Health$248,000Philanthropy$173,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Muchnic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Muchnic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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

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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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home