· Private foundation
Mueller Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD | $15,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MOUNT NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $8,000 |
| CANCER FAMILY CARE INC | $7,000 |
| A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $6,000 |
| MASON SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI OPERA ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET COMPANY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +47%
- ODOUR DAILY BREAD7× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +64%
- CFCISE Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +849%
Funded once
- RMRBC MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +12%
- SCST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC ELEMENTARYone grant, 2022 · $4k
- SOSISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMURone grant, 2023 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Matthew 25 Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds CISE Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
- Who funds A Child's Hope International ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR-CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Child Hope International ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mueller Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.