California · Private foundation
The W A Mueller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $331k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations The W A Mueller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $31k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $29k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $27k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $26k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $27k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $21k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $17k | 92% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $14k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jf Shea Therapeutic Riding Center Inc Fka Fran Joswick Therap Riding Ctr Inc | $11,592 | 2 | 0% |
| Adopt a Platoon Soldier Support Effort Inc | $6,830 | 5 | 0% |
| Prager University Foundation | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $4,270 | 5 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Angel Flight West Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $3,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mutts With a Mission | $3,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $3,125 | 5 | 0% |
| Against All Odds Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The W A Mueller Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About The W A Mueller Foundation
- How much does The W A Mueller Foundation give?
- The W A Mueller Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $31,885 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The W A Mueller Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (18%), Health (14%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are The W A Mueller Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jf Shea Therapeutic Riding Center Inc Fka Fran Joswick Therap Riding Ctr Inc ($12k), Adopt a Platoon Soldier Support Effort Inc ($7k), Prager University Foundation ($5k).
- Does The W A Mueller Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The W A Mueller 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 W A Mueller Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ebs Foundation, Farrell Family Foundation, Seckinger Foundation Corporation.
- Where is The W A Mueller Foundation based?
- The W A Mueller Foundation is based in CA.
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