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The Muller Family Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k16 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country | $29,989 |
| San Antonio Jewish Federation | $20,000 |
| St Mark Presbyterian Church | $7,500 |
| Hill Country Daily Bread | $1,500 |
| UTRGV Surgical Ed Fund | $500 |
| Joel Olsteen Ministries | $500 |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | $300 |
| Legacy of Hope | $250 |
| Hill Country Family Services | $200 |
| Wish for Our Heroes | $200 |
| Salvation Army | $200 |
| San Antonio Rescue Mission | $100 |
| Leonard Cemetary Association | $100 |
| Trinity University | $100 |
| Kendall County Women's Shelter | $100 |
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 (FY17–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- HCHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +39%
- ITIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC2× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +40%
- KCKENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER4× · 2017–2020 · $550 · revenue +185%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE KENDALL COUNTY HISTORIC JAILone grant, 2019 · $2k
- CCComfort Constr Booster Club Incone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -90%
- GBGreater Boerne Chamber of Commerceone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Supplying high-quality food to local individuals in need.
Any woman can, np (dba awc centers) is a christ-centered ministry that provides a place for people to make informed decisions on unplanned pregnancy, sexual health and related mental health (emotional) health issues.
To provide facilities and veterinarian service to care for homeless and abandoned animals, while promoting animal adoption and public education as to the care and treatment of animals.
To give every pet in the hill country the best life possible through successful rescue, adoption, community relationships, awareness, and advocacy.
The foundation was organized to receive endowment gifts given in support of alamo heights united methodist church (ahumc), to invest and manage these funds, to provide periodic distributions to ahumc, and to assist in carrying out ahumc's…
To enhance breeders' ability to raise and promote cattle
We distribute food, clothing, and toiletry items to the poor and needy along the TX-Mexico Border as well as ministering to their spiritual needs through services, health programs, and other humanitarian efforts.
Maintenance of a public medical library and the advancement of the science and art of medicine.
Promotion/production of live theatre
To reduce death/disability related to trauma, disaster and acute illness through implementation of a well-planned and coordinated regional emergency response system.
The organization's mission is to provide emergency assistance with the goal of restoration for individuals and families who are experiencing economic stress. the organization operates a resale store.
We save animals' lives. we find creative ways to do it and are passionate about success at it. animals are our primary clients and everything we do is based on what is in their best interest individually, or as a group.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Myelin Project. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 55 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds Comfort Constr Booster Club Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF PORT ARANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds The Georgetown Project ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds KENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON WELCOMES REFUGEES ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY MISSION FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MYELIN PROJECT ↗
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: United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Food Bank · Stuart Griffin Perlitz Foundation · Cb and Anita Branch Trust James L Drought Trustee · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · The Gvtc 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 Muller 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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