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Mustang Foundation Inc

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.

$5.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.

Animals$3.5MArts & Culture$3.3MHuman Services$1.5MInternational$1.1MEnvironment$1.0MHousing & Shelter$322kEducation$300kFood & Nutrition$270kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $421k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.3M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROUNDABOUT THEATER COMPANY$1,300,000
YMCA OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTY$1,000,000
MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA$625,000
GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE$450,000
FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION$350,000
OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES$300,000
WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$250,000
THE CLIMATE MUSEUM$200,000
GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC$150,000
PATH HOME$140,000
LUNCH BREAK$100,000
BRICK CITY KITTIES RESCUE$80,000
COUNT BASIE THEATRE$75,000
BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION$50,000
COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WILLIAMS BE YOURSELF CHALLENGE: $25k → 8%LUV MICHAEL: $25k → 6%ADELANTE MUJERRES: $25k → 8%LUV MICHAEL: $8k → 6%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $10k → 20%ADELANTE MUJERRES: $25k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERRES: $10k → 8%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $50k → 6%BRADLEY ANGLE: $25k → 12%BRADLEY ANGLE: $5k → 12%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $50k → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $25k → 6%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $25k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $10k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTY: $1.0M → 6%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $10k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTY: $2k → 6%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 34 repeat orgs$690k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
14

Total granted

$11M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

94%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $580k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • RT
    ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +21%
  • MC
    MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +32%
  • YO
    YMCA OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTY INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • JO
    JUSTICE OUTSIDE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +17%
  • OT
    Oregon Tradeswomen Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -17%
  • LE
    LITTLE ESSENTIALS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Women in Product

Our mission is to equip women and non-binary folks to thrive in product management careers at all levels. we want all people to have equitable opportunities to build rewarding careers and shape the products of the future.

Human Services
4
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
9
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bridge Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nontoxic Certified Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYmca Youth DevelopmentAffordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Dance Arts OrganizationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%53%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
26/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA — $2,392,500 · AnimalsMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCAGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $725,000 · AnimalsGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE …Humane World for Animals Inc — $250,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncBRICK CITY KITTIES RESCUE INC — $120,000 · Animals+1 more — $10,000 · AnimalsROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $2,450,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INCCLIMATE MUSEUM — $650,000 · Arts & CultureCLIMATE MUSEUM+4 more — $175,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreYMCA OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTY INC — $1,001,500 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATE…THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALL…ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO — $125,000 · Human ServicesALLAIRE COMMUN…ADELANTE MUJERES — $60,000 · Human Services+8 more — $199,000 · Human Services+8 moreTHE WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $550,000 · OtherTHE WHARTON INSTIT…COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $85,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA — $75,000 · OtherEarth Island Institute Inc — $123,500 · OtherEarth Island Insti…THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $93,500 · OtherCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $77,500 · OtherLUNCH BREAK INC — $225,000 · OtherLUNCH BREAK INCPATH HOME — $230,000 · OtherPATH HOME+21 more — $448,000 · Other+21 moreFIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION — $700,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BRIDGE PROJECT INC — $75,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $25,000 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC — $180,000 · HealthBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION — $130,000 · HealthCreative Growth Art Center — $36,000 · HealthMIB AGENTS INC — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthOMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC — $300,000 · Education
Animals$3,497,500Arts & Culture$3,275,000Human Services$1,535,500Other$1,907,500Philanthropy$800,000Health$371,000Education$300,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $2,450,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA — $2,392,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTY INC — $1,001,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $725,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION — $700,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCLIMATE MUSEUM — $650,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetTHE WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $550,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATH HOME — $230,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLUNCH BREAK INC — $225,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC — $180,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO — $125,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $123,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRICK CITY KITTIES RESCUE INC — $120,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC — $105,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $93,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $77,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOM WHERE PLANTED — $60,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetEVERY WOMAN TREATY INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSoup Kitchen 411 Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCitta Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCreative Growth Art Center — $36,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLUV MICHAEL INC — $32,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBradley Angle — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWILLIAM'S BE YOURSELF CHALLENGE — $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJUSTICE OUTSIDE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMENFIRST TRANSITION REFERRAL CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMIB AGENTS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOregon Tradeswomen Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE ESSENTIALS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLIFT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELSO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNONTOXIC CERTIFIED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SOUTH HARWICH MEETING HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budget
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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Silicon Valley Commun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Oregon Community …New Jersey Natural Ga…The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustThe Ford FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Star Mooring Foundati…Ninety-Nine Girlfrien…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY16.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Oregon Community Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Star Mooring Foundation Inc · Ninety-Nine Girlfriends

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 Mustang Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Elso Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Soup Kitchen 411 Inc — 55% of income from government
  • Oregon Tradeswomen Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
  • Gather Make Shelter — 7% of income from government
  • Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Count Basie Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mustang Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mustang 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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