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The Jane T Muhlethaler Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$306kHealth$254kHuman Services$247kAnimals$46kFood & Nutrition$34kHousing & Shelter$33kReligion$33kCivil Rights$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $67k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Connecticut Foundation$15,000
Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation$15,000
Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County$15,000
Wilton Library Association Inc$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Mark Twain Library$8,000
Western Connecticut State University$7,000
Wilton Interfaith Council$6,000
Redding Social Services$6,000
Temple Israel-General Fund$4,000
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation$4,000
MOZAIC$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Anti-Defamation League$2,000
Bethel Community Food Pantry$2,000
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 (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Wilton Interfaith Council: $6k → 9%Wilton Interfaith Council: $6k → 9%Wilton Interfaith Council: $6k → 9%Wilton Interfaith Council: $6k → 9%Wilton Interfaith Council: $6k → 9%Wilton Interfaith Council: $6k → 9%Wilton Interfaith Council: $6k → 9%Wilton Interfaith Council: $6k → 9%Bridgeport Rescue Mission: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
DE
DC
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 40 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
17

Total granted

$1.0M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+20%

Still filing today

53%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FG
    FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +79%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +79%
  • VN
    VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SA
    Social Action Fund of Temple
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • CC
    Camp Calumet Lutheran Ministries
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • WS
    Wilton Social Services
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
2
Western Connecticut Health Network Affiliates Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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3
The Norwalk Hospital Association

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
4
Hebrew Home & Hospital

The mission of hebrew home and hospital aligns with the mission of its parent organization, hebrew health care, to provide quality services to senior adults. (see schedule o)as part of an integrated system to assist seniors in the…

Health
5
Western Connecticut Health Network Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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6
Visiting Nurse Association of Southeastern Connecticut Inc

To provide and administer a comprehensive multidisciplinary, therapeutic and public health nursing program primarily to residents of the southeastern connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.

Health
7
Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc

To improve the health of the region and to provide healthcare services.

Health
8
Bridgeport Hospital

To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

Health
9
Nuvance Health Medical Practice Ct Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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10
Hebrew Health Care Foundation Inc

Managing endowment funds for hebrew health care and affiliates.

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11
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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12
Western Connecticut Home Care Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Breathe 4 Als 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

33 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. 33 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mark Twain Library: $64,000 · OtherMark Twain LibraryIndividual grant recipient: $55,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRedding Social Services: $53,000 · OtherRedding Social ServicesWestern Connecticut State University: $23,000 · OtherWestern Connecticut State UniversityBETHEL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $18,000 · OtherDive Pirates Foundations: $15,000 · OtherTHE CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE INC: $15,000 · OtherHOMES WITH HOPE: $15,000 · Other+27 more: $139,000 · Other+27 moreVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $120,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE…BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUN…Norwalk Hospital Foundation: $35,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospital Foundat…Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc: $27,000 · HealthDanbury Hospital & New M…+7 more: $11,700 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONN…WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $96,000 · EducationWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIA…+1 more: $500 · EducationFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesFIDELCO GUIDE DOG…WILTON COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesWILTON COMMUNITY …+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesDOROTHY DAY HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterMALTA HOUSE INC: $8,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropyMichael Vincent Sage Dragonheart Foundation Inc: $8,500 · PhilanthropyANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,500 · Civil Rights
Other$397,400Health$232,700Education$216,500Human Services$173,000Housing & Shelter$28,000Philanthropy$22,500Civil Rights$20,500

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 budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $96,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWILTON COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $48,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDOROTHY DAY HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPET ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMichael Vincent Sage Dragonheart Foundation Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTPORT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWise Animal Rescue: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREATHE 4 ALS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE OF WESTPORT INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Plantrician Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAPLES PLAYERS BOOSTERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $200 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.

  • Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILTON COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
  • Who funds CATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PET ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds Michael Vincent Sage Dragonheart Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Alexander Family Foundation IncCT19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Jane T Muhlethaler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jane T Muhlethaler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wilton Library Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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