· Private foundation
Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $408k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $420k
- $250k+1 grant · $653k
| 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 |
| PAWSPERITY | $50,000 |
| TECH25 | $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 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| YORK STREET PROJECT | $20,000 |
| INNOVATEPGH | $20,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
The Ohio University Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +119%- AMABIDING MISSIONS7× · 2019–2025 · $315k · revenue +172% · 29% of their budget
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE5× · 2019–2023 · $190k · revenue +34%
Funded once
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIESone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%- RCRoman Catholic Archdiocese Of Nassau FOUNDATION INC (RCAN FOUNDATION)one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -4%
- FOFOUNDATION OF HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +33%
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To provide a continuum of care for homeless individuals that leads toward self-sufficiency.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
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,…
To promote the health, education, and welfare of individuals and families.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 101 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
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 The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ABIDING MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF PHILADE OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PAWSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLADE RUN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds YORK STREET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds American Whitewater ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds 25 CARRICK AVE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds MARY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Writers Project Inc ↗
- Who funds The Teen Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Nassau FOUNDATION INC (RCAN FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT VERMONT ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
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: 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
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 Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable 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.
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
- Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
- American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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