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.

Where is The Ted Muhs Foundation based?

The Ted Muhs Foundation is based in DE.

The Ted Muhs Foundation

The Ted Muhs Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $36k
$10k–50k6 grants · $60k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$716k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY	$50,000
THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST	$10,000
JUDICIAL WATCH INC	$10,000
TURNING POINT USA INC	$10,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION	$10,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC	$10,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$10,000
K9S FOR WARRIORS INC	$5,000
WWP INC	$5,000
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA	$5,000
ST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION	$5,000
RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION	$3,500
INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC	$2,500
STANFORD UNIVERSITY	$2,500
THE GLAUCOMA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND INC	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Ted Muhs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Ted Muhs Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$612k · 23 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$612k

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+14%

Still filing today

78%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitEducationMembership BenefitCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

TD
THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST
8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +247%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +63%
FH
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +32%

Funded once

TL
THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +2%
FP
Front Porch Communities Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +71%
TA
THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA - ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNI
one grant, 2023 · $1k

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.

04Its field

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.

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services

University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 29 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

19/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$351,850Public Benefit$132,000Health$76,900Education$74,850Arts & Culture$39,600Animals$20,000Community Improvement$7,000Membership Benefit$4,750

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ted Muhs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ted Muhs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home