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Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales

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.

$190k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
16%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$3.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$190k5%
FY202419$186k16%
FY202318$176k6%
FY202218$186k0%
FY202118$148k22%
FY202022$168k14%
FY201923$158k26%
FY201818$93k44%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$350kHealth$281kYouth Development$267kHuman Services$118kPhilanthropy$96kHousing & Shelter$92kEducation$88kArts & Culture$63kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Orange Catholic Foundation$107,5006n/a
Ocean Institute$85,00080%
Shelter Providers of Orange County Inc$71,00071%
Beyond Blindness$57,70090%
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc$55,00080%
Youth Centers of Orange Inc$50,5003n/a
Charles W Bowers Museum Corporation$49,40070%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc$45,00050%
Uc Riverside Foundation$32,50040%
Catholic Charities of Orange County Inc$25,00030%
St Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inc$25,00010%
John Burton Advocates for Youth$21,50090%
St Thomas More Church$14,4002n/a
Kidsingers$13,00044%
Family Promise of Orange County$11,00020%
Laura's House$10,00020%
Tustin Police Foundation$10,000131%
Centers for Living Inc$10,0001n/a
Golf Fore Life Skills the First Tee of Orange County$10,0001n/a
Choc Foundation$7,70020%
Turning Point USA Inc$4,50010%
St Johns Seminary in California Jackie Rotter$2,5001n/a
Tustin Chamber of Commerce$2,00011%
American Federation of Pueri Cantores$2,00011%
The San Juan Capistrano Historical Society$1,00011%
Isaiah House Inc$1,00011%
Hurtt Family Health Clinic Inc$50010%
Montana Wildlife Federation$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($770k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOcean Institute: $85,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetShelter Providers of Orange County Inc: $71,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBeyond Blindness: $57,700 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $55,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCharles W Bowers Museum Corporation: $49,400 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUc Riverside Foundation: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities of Orange County Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSt Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $21,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKidsingers: $13,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetFamily Promise of Orange County: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLaura's House: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTustin Police Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetChoc Foundation: $7,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTustin Chamber of Commerce: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Federation of Pueri Cantores: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe San Juan Capistrano Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIsaiah House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHurtt Family Health Clinic Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontana Wildlife Federation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA24.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Linda I Smith Foundation · The Crean Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · California Community Foundation · American Endowment 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.

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About Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales

How much does Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales give?
Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales reported 20 grants totaling $190,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Health (19%), Youth Development (18%).
Who are Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Orange Catholic Foundation ($108k), Ocean Institute ($85k), Shelter Providers of Orange County Inc ($71k).
Does Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, Linda I Smith Foundation.
Where is Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales based?
Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales is based in CA.

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 50 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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