· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | $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 |
| NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI OPERA ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET COMPANY | $5,000 |
| MASON SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
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 (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 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 +39% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mueller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mueller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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