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Robert & Elizabeth Muller Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$62k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Environment$110kArts & Culture$83kFood & Nutrition$40kReligion$27kEducation$27kPublic Benefit$18kHealth$14kScience & Tech$11kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLIMATE CENTRAL$50,000
PARKER HOMESTEAD - 1665$5,000
HOPE SHEDS LIGHT$5,000
ST ANDREWS CHURCH$1,500
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 (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Bright by Three: $2k → 12%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

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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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$216k · 9 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +149% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
24

Total granted

$216k
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+149%
+34%

Still filing today

44%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionAnimalsScience & TechEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • CC
    CLIMATE CENTRAL INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $110k · revenue +149%
  • PS
    PORTSMOUTH SUBMARINE & MARITIME ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $50k · revenue +45%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +455%

Funded once

  • FW
    FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue -4%
  • TN
    THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +170%
  • TA
    THE ARTS PROJECT OF CHERRY GROVE NY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +171% · 35% of their budget

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.

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Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems

The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…

Science & Tech
2
Animal Protection League of New Jersey

Aplnjs mission is to create a compassionate society. working with the public, policy makers and government officials we advocate for lifestyle changes, programs, policies and laws that promote nonviolent coexistence with animals.

Animals
3
Long Island Cares Inc

Our mission is to bring together all available resources for the benefit of the hungry on Long Island, and provide to the best of our ability for the humanitarian needs of our community. We provide food when and where its needed, sponsor…

Human Services
4
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
5
Liberty Science Center

To inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers and excite learners of all ages about the power, promise, and pure fun of science and technology.lsc offers exceptional science learning onsite, offsite, and online as well as…

Arts & Culture
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
The New Jersey Historical Society

The new jersey historical society collects, preserves, teaches, and interprets new jersey history through our archives, research library, and educational programs. we do so in the belief that an understanding and appreciation of historical…

8
Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation

Our mission is to protect marine life in the gulf of maine through research, education and inspiring action. our most significant activities are studying marine life off the nh coast, conducting over 200 community beach cleanups each year,…

Animals
9
Long Island Crisis Center Inc

To provide free, high quality, confidential and non-judgmental services and programs to support and empower long islanders at critical times in their lives.

Health
10
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
11
Bayshore Center At Bivalve Inc

Through the state's official tall ship, the oyster schooner aj meerwald, and historic waterfront museum, the bayshore center at bivalve ("bcb") will advance understanding of the human impact on new jersey's aquatic environment through…

Arts & Culture
12
Cape May Point Science Center
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bright Beginnings and the most unlike its peers is Parish Resource Center of Li Inc. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 35 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $110,000 · Science & TechCLIMATE CENTRAL INCIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOUNDATION FOR MADISON'S PUBLIC — $12,500 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR MADISON'S PUBLICPARKS AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION — $10,500 · OtherPARKS AND RECREATION ASSOCIATIO…FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE — $10,000 · OtherFRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THEST ANDREW CHURCH — $7,500 · OtherST ANDREW CHURCHPARKER HOMESTEAD - 1665 INC — $5,000 · OtherFred Rogers Company - DT Outreach — $5,000 · OtherST ANDREWS CHURCH — $4,500 · OtherHOPE SHEDS LIGHT INC — $5,000 · Other+16 more — $27,900 · Other+16 morePORTSMOUTH SUBMARINE & MARITIME ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · Arts & CulturePORTSMOUTH SUBMARINE & MA…THE ARTS PROJECT OF CHERRY GROVE NY INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS PROJECT OF CHERR…INFORMATION AGE LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 · Arts & CultureINFORMATION AGE LEARNING …FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $37,500 · Food & NutritionFEEDMORE WE…LUNCH BREAK INC — $2,500 · Food & NutritionLUNCH BREAK…THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $25,000 · EducationCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC — $5,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $1,000 · Animals
Science & Tech$110,000Other$107,900Arts & Culture$85,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Education$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Animals$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPORTSMOUTH SUBMARINE & MARITIME ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARTS PROJECT OF CHERRY GROVE NY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetINFORMATION AGE LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SHEDS LIGHT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUNCH BREAK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParish Resource Center of LI Inc — $1,400 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC
  • Who funds PORTSMOUTH SUBMARINE & MARITIME ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
  • Who funds THE ARTS PROJECT OF CHERRY GROVE NY INC
  • Who funds INFORMATION AGE LEARNING CENTER
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
  • Who funds HOPE SHEDS LIGHT INC
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC
  • Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC
  • Who funds JOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC
  • Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS
  • Who funds Parish Resource Center of LI Inc
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY 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.

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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 Robert & Elizabeth Muller 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Hope Sheds Light Inc7% of income from government
  • Lunch Break Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Robert & Elizabeth Muller Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Robert & Elizabeth Muller 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 35 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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