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Muller 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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k106 grants · $317k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $135,000 |
| CAPO BOYS BASKETBALL CLUB | $27,000 |
| KUSEWERA | $24,500 |
| DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH FUND | $20,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS-LOS ANGELES CHAPTER | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $15,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION-STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| BERKELEY COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY | $12,000 |
| THE BASIC FUND | $12,000 |
| MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY | $11,960 |
| MONARCH HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS | $11,000 |
| ALL MAY SEE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE RESURRECTION SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SERVITE HIGH SCHOOL | $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 (FY21–25, $268k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +13% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
118 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC5× · 2021–2025 · $483k · revenue +29%
- CBCapo Boys Basketball Club5× · 2021–2025 · $123k · revenue +18% · 34% of their budget
- TBTHE BASIC FUND5× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- VVARIOUSone grant, 2018 · $805k
- TKTHE KINGDOM CENTER - GABRIELS HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- THTHE HOSPITALLER FOUNDATION OF CALIF INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +132%
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.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Health System - So California and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
176 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 176 of the 251 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds Capo Boys Basketball Club ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BASIC FUND ↗
- Who funds MONARCH HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KUSEWERA ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mammoth Mountain Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Life Centers of Ventura County ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds YORBA LINDA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LES AMIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPITALLER FOUNDATION OF CALIF INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds One Step A La Vez ↗
- Who funds Achievement Rewards For College Scientists Foundation Inc LA Chapter ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE CDM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · California Community Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Marin Community Foundation · Klm Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Thomas & Dorothy Leavey 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 Muller 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.
- Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery — 60% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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