How much does Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation give?

Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $1,507,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 44 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Human Services (17%), Religion (7%).

Who are Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Ohio University Foundation ($3.1M), Holy Family Institute ($615k), Abiding Missions ($315k).

Does Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations.

Where is Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation based?

Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation

Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$653k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$3.5MHuman Services$1.3MReligion$545kHousing & Shelter$388kHealth$382kYouth Development$207kPublic Benefit$199kEnvironment$135kOther$0

02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $27k
$10k–50k24 grants · $408k
$50k–250k5 grants · $420k
$250k+1 grant · $653k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$25M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$652,500
HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE	$175,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL	$80,000
ABIDING MISSIONS	$65,000
TECH25	$50,000
PAWSPERITY	$50,000
COVENANT HOUSE OF ALASKA	$40,000
GLADE RUN FOUNDATION	$30,000
AMERICAN WHITEWATER	$29,000
CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY	$25,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES	$24,000
YORK STREET PROJECT	$20,000
INNOVATEPGH	$20,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000

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 (FY19–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

$6.9M · 55 repeat orgs$453k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.9M

$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+30%

Still filing today

64%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

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

The Ohio University Foundation
7× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +119%
AM
ABIDING MISSIONS
7× · 2019–2025 · $315k · revenue +172% · 29% of their budget
CH
COVENANT HOUSE
5× · 2019–2023 · $190k · revenue +34%

Funded once

HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
RC
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Nassau FOUNDATION INC (RCAN FOUNDATION)
one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -4%
FO
FOUNDATION OF HOPE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +33%

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.

Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services

Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh

To provide a continuum of care for homeless individuals that leads toward self-sufficiency.

Human Services

La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education

Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights

Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver

As the charitable arm of the archdiocese of denver and inspired by god's love and compassion, catholic charities extends the healing ministry of jesus christ to the poor and those in need. catholic charities of the archdiocese of denver…

Human Services

Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health

St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

—

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington

Catholic charities of the archdiocese of washington is the area's leading provider of comprehensive human services, offered to individuals and families in need, through 47 programs in 29 locations in the district of columbia, montgomery,…

Human Services

Pauline Auberle Foundation

To promote the health, education, and welfare of individuals and families.

Human Services

Covenant Hospital Hobbs

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health

Alice Paul House

The mission of alice paul house is to educate, advocate, and empower all victims/survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, other crime and juvenile offenders.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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

58 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. 58 of the 101 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)

58/58

Grantees still filing

40/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$3,238,000Other$2,215,230Human Services$1,286,550Health$343,310Youth Development$149,240Public Benefit$134,000Housing & Shelter$105,000

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.

The United Way of Southwestern PennsylvaniaPA29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · McElhattan Foundation · American Eagle Outfitters Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Centimark 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 Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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