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The Muck Family Foundation at a glance

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The Muck Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$185kHealth$118kEnvironment$19kRecreation & Sports$18kHousing & Shelter$10kYouth Development$10kPublic Benefit$8kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$947k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
LAWRENCE COUNTY YOUNG GUNS$1,000
DFI EDUCATIONAL TRUST$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%AGC CHARITIES: $1k → 7%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 11%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $4k → 11%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
VA
MD
NC
MS
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$366k · 15 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
29

Total granted

$366k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+43%

Still filing today

73%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther
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
    2× · 2022–2023 · $106k · revenue +23%
  • AM
    ABIDING MISSIONS
    3× · 2018–2020 · $35k · revenue +172%
  • HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +329%

Funded once

  • PS
    PITTSBURGH SCHWEITZER FELLOWS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • LO
    LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -16%
  • BP
    BROOKFIELD POWER US ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC
    one grant, 2019 · $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
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…

Health
2
Clearfield Hospital

To provide the community with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life.

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3
Riverlife

Riverlife's mission is to create, activate, and celebrate pittsburgh's riverfronts, connecting people through exceptional places and experiences.

Environment
4
Parkinson's Foundation Inc

Make life better for people with parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.

Health
5
Wayne Memorial Hospital

It is the mission of wayne memorial hospital to provide quality healthcare with compassion, advocacy, respect, excellence, and service; to promote wellness in our community; and to be proactive in responding to our community's needs.

Health
6
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
7
Lancaster General Health Foundation

The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…

Philanthropy
8
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
9
Highlands Hospital

Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…

Health
10
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
11
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
12
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allegheny County Parks Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Premo J Pappafava Foundation. 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

25 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. 25 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $8,500 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONMORAINE TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $8,000 · OtherMORAINE TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF…PITTSBURGH SCHWEITZER FELLOWS PROGRAM: $6,750 · OtherBROOKFIELD POWER US ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC: $5,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · OtherBLIND & VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES: $5,000 · Other+21 more: $22,100 · Other+21 moreThe Ohio University Foundation: $105,500 · EducationThe Ohio University Foundati…ABIDING MISSIONS: $34,600 · HealthABIDING MISSIONSCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL …CLEAR THOUGHTS FOUNDATION: $18,000 · HealthCLEAR THOUGHTS FOUND…+3 more: $4,000 · HealthHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWOR…WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesWOODLANDS FO…LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIF…CENTER OF LIFE: $4,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF LI…+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Whitewater: $18,500 · EnvironmentARMSTRONG TRAILS INC: $8,500 · EnvironmentKNOCH KNIGHTS LEGACIES FOUNDATION: $22,000 · PhilanthropyTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $7,000 · Public Benefit
Other$135,350Education$105,500Health$76,600Human Services$47,000Environment$27,000Philanthropy$22,000Public Benefit$7,000

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 budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $105,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKNOCH KNIGHTS LEGACIES FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Whitewater: $18,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAR THOUGHTS FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetARMSTRONG TRAILS INC: $8,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER OF LIFE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR OWN HOME: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAWRENCE COUNTY YOUNG GUNS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUTLER MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAGC CHARITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREMO J PAPPAFAVA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 4.7% 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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…The United Way of Sou…Eqt FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Richard King Mellon F…Hillman Family Founda…Philip & Patricia Muc…The Grable FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Heinz EndowmentsUpmc GroupBaird Foundation Inc
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA23.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Philip & Patricia Muck Charitable Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · The Heinz Endowments · Upmc Group · Baird Foundation Inc

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 Muck Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Muck Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Muck Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Muck Family 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 46 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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