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The Ted Muhs Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$146k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
10%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$716k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations The Ted Muhs 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; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$93k5%
FY202321$123k10%
FY202222$107k18%
FY202120$82k20%
FY202016$64k13%
FY201914$62k7%
FY201814$58k14%
FY201712$53kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$160kPublic Benefit$157kEducation$102kHealth$85kArts & Culture$80kRecreation & Sports$61kCivil Rights$25kAnimals$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
NV
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ted Muhs Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust: $80,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $52,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRampant Lion Foundation the Deke Foundation: $20,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Glaucoma Education & Research Fund Inc: $20,000 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetSt Rose Dominican Health Foundation: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Opera Company: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIntercollegiate Studies Institute Inc: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHenderson Community Foundation: $7,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetFront Porch Communities Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $4,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mount Sinai Hospital: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Phillips Academy: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pasadena Symphony Association: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 21.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ted Muhs Foundation

How much does The Ted Muhs Foundation give?
The Ted Muhs Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $145,810 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Ted Muhs Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Public Benefit (22%), Education (14%).
Who are The Ted Muhs Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust ($80k), The Heritage Foundation ($80k), Fisher House Foundation Inc ($80k).
Does The Ted Muhs Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ted Muhs Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ted Muhs Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Ted Muhs Foundation based?
The Ted Muhs Foundation is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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