· Private foundation
Mueller-Scherger Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELPHOS STADIUM CLUB INC | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF VAN WERT COUNTY | $20,000 |
| NEW LIFE MINISTRIES | $19,163 |
| PARKVIEW HUNGTINGTON FAMILY YOUNG | $18,000 |
| OHIO DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION | $14,163 |
| HISTORIC FORKS OF THE WABASH | $12,000 |
| PATHFINDER SERVICES | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Mueller-Scherger Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- HCHUNTINGTON COUNTY 4-H FAIR ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2017–2021 · $89k · revenue +96%
- DSDelphos Senior Citizens Inc3× · 2019–2023 · $66k · revenue +41%
- POPLACE OF GRACE INC4× · 2019–2022 · $38k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- HAHUNTINGTON AREA REGIONAL TRAILSone grant, 2023 · $15k
- HAHUNTINGTON ALERT INCone grant, 2017 · $11k
- MHMARKLE HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
We are a christian community lovingly serving our neighbors in need through programs that empower and transform lives.
To promote and support a community atmosphere in which business prospers and the quality of life continually improves.
To collect, preserve, interpret and promote interest in the history of huntington county, indiana. the society presents its collection to the public through exhibitions, educational programs and publications.
The Granville Historical Society acquires, preserves, and shares Granvilles past with residents and visitors to inspire curiosity about, instill knowledge of, and foster a commitment to our history.
Hunt hollow ski club will be recognized as the premier private winter sports destination providing a safe, family oriented atmosphere with the highest quality facilities and trained professional staff for the enjoyment of members and…
Since 1930, the boys & girls club of dayton (bgcd) has been an anchor and oasis with a mission focused on inspiring, developing and helping young people to reach their full potential because we believe that every child has the potential to…
Seeking to put God's love into action,
To facilitate the ability of all dalton and whitfield co. residents to acquire and maintain safe and decent housing.
The mission of the organization is to unite the community through visionary leadership, assessment of needs and the mobilization and dispersion of resources to enchance the quality of life for the citizens of huntington county. the…
Wabash county habitat for humanity, inc. is a non-profit organization working in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build decent, affordable housing.
Strengthen industrial operations in huron county, ohio
Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio District Kiwanis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Huntington County 4-H Fair Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 DELPHOS STADIUM CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON COUNTY 4-H FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Delphos Senior Citizens Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HUNTINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF GRACE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC FORKS OF THE WABASH INC ↗
- Who funds Huntington University ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
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: Huntington County Community Fdtn Inc · Huntington Memorial Hospital Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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-Scherger 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.