How much does Mueller Family Charitable Trust give?

Mueller Family Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $79,831 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Mueller Family Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Education (29%), Religion (22%).

Who are Mueller Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Northwestern University Settlement Association ($69k), Noble Network of Charter Schools ($56k), Kenilworth Union Church ($48k).

Does Mueller Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mueller Family Charitable Trust 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 Mueller Family Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is Mueller Family Charitable Trust based?

Mueller Family Charitable Trust is based in IL.

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Mueller Family Charitable Trust

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.

$80k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 7
Grants FY2025: 8
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $8,194
Largest grant, FY2025: $29,525
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 8; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $1.8M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Mueller Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	7	$80k	0%
FY2024	8	$32k	50%
FY2023	5	$30k	0%
FY2022	7	$24k	14%
FY2021	7	$35k	29%
FY2020	5	$17k	n/a

85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$70kEducation$63kReligion$48kArts & Culture$16kCommunity Improvement$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Northwestern University Settlement Association	$69,442	6	0%
Noble Network of Charter Schools	$56,300	6	0%
Kenilworth Union Church	$47,525	6	n/a
BUTLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY co GBR GROUP	$13,500	2	0%
Denison University	$3,500	5	0%
Field Museum of Natural History	$2,000	3	0%
Main Street Monroe Inc	$1,000	1	0%
The Michigan Shores Club Foundation	$600	1	1%
Soldier Strong Inc	$515	1	0%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mueller Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

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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 8.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Mueller Family Charitable Trust

How much does Mueller Family Charitable Trust give?: Mueller Family Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $79,831 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Mueller Family Charitable Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Education (29%), Religion (22%).
Who are Mueller Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Northwestern University Settlement Association ($69k), Noble Network of Charter Schools ($56k), Kenilworth Union Church ($48k).
Does Mueller Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mueller Family Charitable Trust 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 Mueller Family Charitable Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Mueller Family Charitable Trust based?: Mueller Family Charitable Trust is based in IL.