Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Musser Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $905k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 90
- Grants FY2024
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 79 to 101
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The Musser Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $518k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 89 | $901k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 79 | $973k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 101 | $1.0M | 53% |
| FY2021 | 87 | $719k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 91 | $666k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Fine | $125,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Ma Ka Hana Ka Ike Building Program | $100,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Friends of the Mississippi River | $91,250 | 4 | 1% |
| Roshni | $89,000 | 4 | 70% |
| Pilot Hill Inc | $73,000 | 3 | 6% |
| The North Shore Community Land Trust | $60,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado | $58,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Piney Woods Fine Arts Association | $54,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Prattsville Art Project Inc | $54,000 | 5 | 28% |
| Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning | $49,955 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 197 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($868k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Musser Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 169 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Wyoming Humanities Council · Minnesota Humanities Center · Mardag Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Musser Fund
- How much does The Musser Fund give?
- The Musser Fund reported 90 grants totaling $905,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 101 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Musser Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Environment (19%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are The Musser Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Project Fine ($125k), Ma Ka Hana Ka Ike Building Program ($100k), Friends of the Mississippi River ($91k).
- Does The Musser Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Musser Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Musser Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyoming Community Foundation, Atherton Family Foundation, El Pomar Foundation.
- Where is The Musser Fund based?
- The Musser Fund is based in WI.
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