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Muller Chan Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Muller Chan Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$775kHealth$493kEducation$85kHuman Services$6kInternational$6kFood & Nutrition$5kArts & Culture$2kAnimals$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $600
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$200,000
THE SEEN FOUNDATION$10,000
GRIN2B FOUNDATION$500
SHINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$100
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VISTA ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $6k → 12%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $2k → 4%VISTA ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $5k → 12%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $2k → 4%VISTA ENDOWMENT FUND: $5k → 12%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%BLINK NOW FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +164% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$1.0M
$336k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+164%
+23%

Still filing today

70%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2024–2025 · $450k · revenue +3%
  • VE
    VISTA ENDOWMENT FUND INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +140%
  • BF
    BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT
    4× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • JH
    JEFFERSON HEALTH FOUND
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • NA
    NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • GF
    GNIN2B FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
8
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
11
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

The mission of robert wood johnson university hospital is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality,…

Health
12
Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates

The organizations are committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shriners Hospitals for Children; the most unlike its peers is Jewish Relief Agency Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS: $324,622 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSJEFFERSON HEALTH FOUND: $250,000 · OtherJEFFERSON HEALTH FOUNDNAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherNAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION+8 more: $8,700 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $450,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Cons…+3 more: $23,500 · Human ServicesNEWARK BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $225,000 · HealthNEWARK BETH ISRAEL…+4 more: $1,900 · HealthTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionTravis Manion Foundation: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE: $500 · AnimalsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 · International
Other$658,322Human Services$473,500Health$226,900Education$10,000Food & Nutrition$4,500Philanthropy$3,000Animals$500International$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $450,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $15,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSomerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGRIN2B FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetABILIS INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Muller Chan Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Muller Chan Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Muller Chan Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Muller Chan Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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