· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $20,000 |
| CAF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| THE NEST - CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC | $15,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF THE BLUEGRASS | $10,000 |
| FOODCHAIN | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| CARNEGIE CENTER | $10,000 |
| HIAS | $6,000 |
| HOPE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| APPALRED LEGAL AID | $5,000 |
| WINE TO WATER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Muir House Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
- Who funds Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND ↗
- 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 LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds JAIL GUITAR DOORS ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Muir House Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Muir House Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
How this is measured
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