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The Florence M Muller Foundation at a glance

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The Florence M Muller Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$637k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.2MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$1.0MYouth Development$415kCommunity Improvement$185kCrime & Legal$174kFood & Nutrition$104kArts & Culture$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $390k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $637k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Finger Lakes Community College Foundation$636,751
Holy Childhood$50,000
Finger Lakes Community Action Program$50,000
Children's Institute$49,400
Individual grant recipient$45,000
Hope Hall School$35,000
Individual grant recipient$34,893
Cancer Support Community at Gilda's Club$30,000
Veterans Outreach Center$25,000
GiGi's Playhouse$25,000
Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association$25,000
Junior Achievement$25,000
Mercy Flight Central$20,000
Disability EmpowHer Network$17,905
Laurel House$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $819k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Living Well Mission: $30k → 15%Heritage Christian Services: $5k → 14%Wayne County Action Program: $25k → 11%Laurel House: $15k → 11%Laurel House: $14k → 11%Laurel House: $1k → 11%ROCovery Fitness: $25k → 14%Hillside Children's Foundation: $81k → 14%Hillside Children's Foundation: $81k → 14%Hillside Children's Foundation: $81k → 14%The Center for Youth Services: $30k → 14%The Center for Youth Services: $30k → 14%Goodwill of the Finger Lakes: $25k → 14%The Children's Agenda: $60k → 14%The Children's Agenda: $60k → 14%Hillside Foundation: $9k → 14%The Children's Agenda: $40k → 14%The Children's Agenda: $40k → 14%LIFETIME ASSISTANCE: $20k → 14%YMCA of Greater Rochester: $18k → 14%PIRATE TOY FUND: $20k → 14%YWCA of Rochester & Monroe County: $50k → 14%YWCA of Rochester & Monroe County: $50k → 14%YWCA of Greater Rochester: $7k → 14%YWCA of Greater Rochester: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 47 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
61

Total granted

$6.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+21%

Still filing today

72%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • FL
    FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +442% · 40% of their budget
  • HH
    HOPE HALL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $560k · revenue +242%
  • RP
    ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOLS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF TRYBE ECOTHERAPY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · 86% of their budget
  • YC
    Yates Community Center
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • YO
    YWCA of Greater Rochester & Monroe County
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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.

1
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
2
Rochester General College of Health Careers

The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.

Education
3
Rochester Child Care Center Inc

The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…

Human Services
4
Rochesterworks Inc

The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.

Employment
5
Neighborhood Housing Services of Rochester Inc

NeighborWorks Rochester collaborates with people and partners to strengthen, sustain and promote city neighborhoods. Our services are available to a wide spectrum of the community, including existing and potential homeowners, tenants and…

Housing & Shelter
6
Rochester Ecology Partners Inc

Rochester Ecology Partners helps all people find nature where they live, work, and play.

Environment
7
One Roc Inc

The company's mission is to create new jobs, increase regional wealth, raise regional gdp and enhance opportunity; to invest in a world-class economic development ecosystem where incumbent businesses are thriving, new firms are locating,…

Community Improvement
8
Rochester Regional Health

The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…

Health
9
Rochester Friendly Home

The friendly home is a non-profit, non-denominational 200 bed nursing care and rehabilitation facility for older adults. located at 3156 east avenue in brighton, the friendly home offers a variety of health care services including 24-hour…

Health
10
Greater Rochester Regional Health Information Organization Inc

The mission of the rochester rhio is to provide the rochester medical service area with a system for a secure health information exchange that allows for timely access to clinical information and improved decision making. the primary goal…

Public Benefit
11
United Way of Greater Rochester Inc

United way of greater rochester's mission is to unite the good will and resources of the greater rochester community so that everyone can thrive. united way supports a broad network of human service organizations, community initiatives and…

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12
Central New York Quest Inc

Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Ontario County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Trybe Ecotherapy 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

73 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. 73 of the 119 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
52/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,159,477 · OtherFINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCHOPE HALL: $560,000 · OtherHOPE HALLFINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $181,154 · Other+67 more: $1,824,747 · Other+67 moreROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOLS: $260,000 · EducationROCHESTER PREP…NAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · EducationNAZARETH UNIVE…Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc: $115,000 · EducationGreater Roches…LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $105,000 · EducationLITERACY VOLUN…ENCOMPASS RESOURCES FOR LEARNING INC: $100,000 · EducationENCOMPASS RESO…ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $64,486 · EducationST JOHN FISHER…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $55,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I: $50,000 · Education+5 more: $110,500 · Education+5 moreHILLSIDE FOUNDATION: $252,000 · Human ServicesHILLSIDE FOU…The Children's Agenda Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesThe Children…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY: $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'…The Center for Youth Services Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesThe Center f…LIVING WELL MISSION: $30,000 · Human ServicesLAUREL HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Human Services+7 more: $146,862 · Human Services+7 moreCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $113,400 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of Rochester NY Inc: $80,000 · HealthTHE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $60,000 · HealthUR MEDICINE HOME CARE INC: $55,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF TRYBE ECOTHERAPY INC: $50,000 · HealthTHRIVE TO SURVIVE ORGANIZATION INC: $47,864 · HealthCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester: $45,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR ONTARIO COUNTY INC: $41,000 · Health+4 more: $24,750 · HealthCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR YOUTH INC DBA BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER ROCH: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOMEN'S COLLEGE PREP FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentAbilities Movement Inc: $8,735 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $125,000 · Crime & LegalChild Advocacy Center of the Finger Lakes: $42,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR DISPUTE SETTLEMENT INC: $7,000 · Crime & LegalFOODLINK INC: $53,500 · Food & NutritionMilly's Pantry Inc: $15,000 · Food & NutritionSouth Seneca Community Services Center Inc: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$4,725,378Education$985,486Human Services$818,862Health$517,014Youth Development$188,735Crime & Legal$174,000Food & Nutrition$71,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,159,477 over 7y, 40% of budgetHOPE HALL: $560,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOLS: $260,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSIDE FOUNDATION: $252,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetThe Children's Agenda Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetVeterans Outreach Center Inc: $130,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $125,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $113,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHILLSIDE WORK SCHOLARSHIP CONNECTION: $106,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $105,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetENCOMPASS RESOURCES FOR LEARNING INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR YOUTH INC DBA BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER ROCH: $95,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetRochester Childfirst Network: $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Rochester NY Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $64,486 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $55,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUR MEDICINE HOME CARE INC: $55,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $53,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRYBE ECOTHERAPY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 86% of budgetTHRIVE TO SURVIVE ORGANIZATION INC: $47,864 over 5y, 15% of budgetCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester: $45,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR ONTARIO COUNTY INC: $41,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetVILLA OF HOPE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISABILITY EMPOWHER NETWORK INC: $37,905 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetLIVING WELL MISSION: $30,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetInterVol Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetVERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL: $28,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $26,637 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York State Network for Youth Success: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCOVERY FITNESS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMK Gandhi Institute For Nonviolence: $24,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFriends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library: $21,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S COLLEGE PREP FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPIRATE TOY FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetA MAGICAL JOURNEY THRU STAGES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLIFETIME ASSISTANCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Rochester Area Commun…Esl Charitable Founda…Greater Rochester Hea…United Way of Greater…Max and Marian Farash…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Paychex Charitable Fo…William & Sheila Kona…Rochester Area Commun…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…JM McDonald Foundatio…Charles J & Burton S …
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY90.4× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family 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 The Florence M Muller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Florence M Muller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Florence M Muller Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Florence M Muller Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 119 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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