· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENILWORTH UNION CHURCH | $29,525 |
| NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS | $21,600 |
| BUTLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $12,500 |
| NORTRHWESTERN UNIV SETTLEMENT ASSOC | $8,194 |
| VARIOUS -- UNDER 1000 EACH | $4,512 |
| MICHIGAN SHORES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NNNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +23%
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +20%
- FMFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY3× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MSMAIN STREET MONROE INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- TMTHE MICHIGAN SHORES CLUB FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $600 · revenue +80%
- SSSOLDIER STRONG INCone grant, 2021 · $515 · revenue +11%
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.
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.
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Butler university, founded on ideals of equity and academic excellence, creates and fosters a collaborative, stimulating intellectual learning environment. we are inspired to boldly innovate and broadly educate, enriching communities and…
Since 1831, the indiana historical society has been indiana's storyteller, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the state's history. a nonprofit membership organization, the ihs also…
The museum school celebrates, nurtures and enhances the ability of all participants through experimental, project-based learning. infusing the arts and utilizing resources available at local museums.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY co GBR GROUP ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MONROE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHIGAN SHORES CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLDIER STRONG INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mueller Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mueller Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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