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.

Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales

Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% 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

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $29k
$10k–50k14 grants · $161k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION	$20,000
CITY OF HOPE	$15,000
NOBEL VIKING CHARITIES	$15,000
ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH	$11,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
HOMEAID ORANGE COUNTY	$10,000
ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$10,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN	$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITES OF ORANGE COUNTY	$10,000
UC RIVERSIDE GUARDIAN SCHOLARS	$10,000
BEYOND BLINDNESS	$10,000
OCEAN INSTITUTE	$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF OC	$10,000
ORANGE COUNTY RESUE MISSION	$10,000
HEART OF JESUS RETREAT CENTER	$6,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 31 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%

+11%

Still filing today

45%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthEducationOther

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

SP
SHELTER PROVIDERS OF ORANGE COUNTY INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +148%
BB
BEYOND BLINDNESS
9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +68%
OC
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc
8× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +26%

Funded once

SV
ST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +117%
TP
Tustin Police Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +142% · 31% of their budget
CF
Centers for Living Inc
one grant, 2019 · $10k

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.

The California Channel

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…

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Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

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People for Irvine Community Health

211OC links Orange County's most vulnerable with the health and human service resources they need. Last year alone, we served over 100,000 requests for help (call/email/in-person/online). Everyone knows someone who needs help. For…

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Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health

Orange County Technology Action Network

Octane connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology growth in orange county. our members represent orange county technology executive leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, academicians, and…

Community Improvement

Children's Hospital of Orange County

To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.

Health

California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit

For the Children

To transform lives and communities by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the lives of children in the foster care system aimed to prevent academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking,…

Recreation & Sports

Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health

California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified

Burbank Housingsr Corporation

To own and operate affordable rental housing.

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California Coast Credit Union

California coast credit union (credit union) is a cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Orange County Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Federation of Pueri Cantores. 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

15/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,026,850Housing & Shelter$126,000Religion$85,000Human Services$76,000Youth Development$72,000Arts & Culture$64,400Food & Nutrition$45,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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