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The Muhs Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF ST RITA | $55,000 |
| MATER DOLOROSA PASSIONIST RETREAT CENTER | $30,000 |
| JOHN TRACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| SAN GABRIEL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA GLAAC | $7,500 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF LA - TOGETHER IN MISSION | $5,000 |
| CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST JOHNS SEMINARY | $2,500 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $2,000 |
| SIERRA MADRE SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM | $2,000 |
| FLINTRIDGE SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| SIERRA MADRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DOLORES MISSION CHURCH | $2,000 |
| FOOTHILL UNITY CENTER | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JTJOHN TRACY CLINIC9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +138%
- MDMATER DOLOROSA PASSIONIST RETREAT CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +70%
- SGSAN GABRIEL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2019 · $1k
- ABALLIANCE BUILDERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k
- IFINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIPSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +57%
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.
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Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
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The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
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To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
As your financial institution, we pledge to serve you and our community faithfully. we will be friendly, helpful, and professional, and we will provide great products and competitive rates.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Madre Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nami Glendale. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 34 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 JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MATER DOLOROSA PASSIONIST RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN GABRIEL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NAMI GLENDALE ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds SIERRA MADRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA MADRE SEARCH & RESCUE TEAM ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILL UNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 826LA ↗
- Who funds SIERRA MADRE ROSE FLOAT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIPS ↗
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 The Muhs Family 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.
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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