How much does The Muse Family Foundation give?

The Muse Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,900,043 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Muse Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Employment (15%), Community Improvement (13%).

Who are The Muse Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Year Up Inc ($1.2M), Air Force Academy Foundation ($1.1M), Child Poverty Action Lab ($825k).

Does The Muse Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Muse Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Muse Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc.

Where is The Muse Family Foundation based?

The Muse Family Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

The Muse Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 24
Grants FY2024: 27
Organizations funded FY2023: 30%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 38; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 7
Total assets, FY2024: $50M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Muse Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	23	$1.9M	22%
FY2023	27	$1.4M	30%
FY2022	36	$2.4M	56%
FY2021	38	$1.7M	58%
FY2020	37	$1.6M	n/a

92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.2MEmployment$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.2MInternational$925kEnvironment$569kHealth$568kPhilanthropy$507kHuman Services$505kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Year Up Inc	$1,200,000	5	0%
Air Force Academy Foundation	$1,050,000	2	2%
Child Poverty Action Lab	$825,000	5	4%
The New Center	$375,000	2	27%
Jubilee Park & Community Center Corporation	$250,000	2	3%
Trinity Park Conservancy	$250,000	1	3%
Texas Trees Foundation	$213,285	2	2%
Mill City Community Association	$208,976	5	n/a
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc	$200,000	2	0%
Builders of Hope CDC	$200,000	2	5%

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All grantees of The Muse Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Year Up Inc	$1,200,000	5	0%
Air Force Academy Foundation	$1,050,000	2	2%
Child Poverty Action Lab	$825,000	5	4%
The New Center	$375,000	2	27%
Jubilee Park & Community Center Corporation	$250,000	2	3%
Trinity Park Conservancy	$250,000	1	3%
Texas Trees Foundation	$213,285	2	2%
Mill City Community Association	$208,976	5	n/a
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc	$200,000	2	0%
Builders of Hope CDC	$200,000	2	5%
Combined Arms	$155,000	3	1%
Hospice of East Texas Foundation	$150,000	3	7%
Empowering the Masses	$141,000	5	12%
Southern Dallas Link Inc	$140,000	1	43%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc	$133,000	2	0%
Housing Forward	$100,000	1	1%
The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Inc	$86,315	2	2%
Business Executives for National Security	$75,000	2	1%
Violas House	$70,000	3	2%
Cornerstone Crossroads Academy	$65,000	2	9%
CARDBoard Project	$60,000	1	55%
The Crystal Charity Ball	$50,000	5	0%
The Uc Davis Foundation	$50,000	2	0%
Dallas Stars Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	2%
The George W Bush Foundation	$50,000	2	0%
Primos Dallas	$40,000	2	18%
Good Street Learning Center Inc	$35,000	1	10%
Zan Wesley Holmes Jr Community Outreach Center	$29,000	1	8%
Polo Training Center Santa Barbara	$26,800	2	14%
Hockaday School	$25,000	1	0%
Braver Together Tarrant	$25,000	1	5%
Center for Strategic and International Studies	$25,000	5	0%
Lone Star Justice Alliance	$25,000	1	1%
Abington Health Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Restorative Farms	$20,000	1	6%
Forest Forward	$20,000	1	0%
Fairview Youth Foundation	$18,000	2	n/a
Miles of Freedom	$12,000	2	2%
Green Dot Public Schools	$11,000	2	0%
His Bridgebuilders Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Business and Community Lenders of Texas	$10,000	1	0%
Steel City Squash Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
March to the Polls	$10,000	1	n/a
Human Rights Initiative of North Texas Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Dallas Theater Center	$10,000	1	0%
Children's Medical Center Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas Inc	$8,225	1	0%
Food Bank for New York City	$8,000	1	0%
Weathervane Music Organization	$7,587	1	5%
Dallas College Foundation Inc	$6,360	1	0%
The Porch Society	$5,000	1	24%
Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church Fdn	$5,000	1	n/a
American Immigration Council	$5,000	1	0%
Youth Equipped to Succeed	$5,000	1	0%
Connecting Point of Park Cities	$4,800	1	1%
Reprieve (Us)	$3,000	1	0%
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Epiphany Community Development Foundation	$2,000	2	n/a
Preservation Park Cities	$1,000	1	1%
Bruce Wood Dance Co Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

The Muse Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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 Dallas FoundationTX42.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · State Fair of Texas · Texas Instruments Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Capital Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation

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.

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About The Muse Family Foundation

How much does The Muse Family Foundation give?: The Muse Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,900,043 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Muse Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Employment (15%), Community Improvement (13%).
Who are The Muse Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Year Up Inc ($1.2M), Air Force Academy Foundation ($1.1M), Child Poverty Action Lab ($825k).
Does The Muse Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Muse Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Muse Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc.
Where is The Muse Family Foundation based?: The Muse Family Foundation is based in TX.