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The Muir House 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $20,000 |
| CAF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| THE NEST - CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC | $15,000 |
| CARNEGIE CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS | $10,000 |
| FOODCHAIN | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF THE BLUEGRASS | $10,000 |
| HIAS | $6,000 |
| APPALRED LEGAL AID | $5,000 |
| HOPE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| WINE TO WATER | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Muir House Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- CFCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +100%
- KEKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +9%
- THTHE HOPE CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $48k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- SESOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $32k · revenue -24%
- HFHead Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $30k
- LSLEXINGTON SCHOOL INCone grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue -2%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Dewey Dam Dog & Cat Protection Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 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. 46 of the 57 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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD ↗
- Who funds FOODCHAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Child Foundation ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND ↗
- Who funds Head Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds Wine to Water ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BOOK PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds JAIL GUITAR DOORS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Ee Murry Family Foundation · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Roaring Brook 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 Muir House 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
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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