· Private foundation
The W A Mueller 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE | $4,050 |
| ADOPT A PLATOON | $1,520 |
| LA COUNTY FIRE MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| World Vision | $1,500 |
| MRC | $1,000 |
| FEED THE HUNGRY | $1,000 |
| JUDCIAL WATCH | $1,000 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $1,000 |
| Prager University Foundation | $1,000 |
| LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | $800 |
| PROJECT K-9 HERO | $750 |
| PAWS OF HONOR INC | $750 |
| SEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS | $750 |
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 (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
37 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- JSJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC2× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +101%
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +222%
- AAADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- AFANGEL FLIGHT WEST INCone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +5%
- SDSantiago de Compstela Catholic Churone grant, 2017 · $4k
- SFSD FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The mission of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is to develop strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies building on the the expertise and experience of its staff and advisors. CNAS engages policy…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
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.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.
We work to build a service-member and veteran led movement that ends militarism by transforming ourselves, military culture and american society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Children's Hospital. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 120 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 JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MUTTS WITH A MISSION ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO FIRE-RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER OF HUNTINGTON BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
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: Ebs Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Donors Trust Inc · H & R Peters Family Foundation · Usher Family Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Brenneman Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation · The Henkes Foundation · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation
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 W A Mueller 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.