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.

The W A Mueller Foundation

The W A Mueller Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$33kHealth$26kHuman Services$15kPublic Benefit$13kAnimals$10kEducation$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kYouth Development$7kOther$0

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750

Median grant

States reached

$331k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST EDWARDS THE CONFESSOR CATHOLIC C	$7,200
ADOPT A PLATOON	$3,040
ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE	$2,500
JUDCIAL WATCH	$1,500
The Heritage Foundation	$1,000
World Vision	$1,000
LA County Benefit Welfare Foundatio	$1,000
Prager University Foundation	$1,000
Operation Homefront	$1,000
Irondog K9 International	$750
Mutts with a Mission	$750
Second Chance K9	$750
PAWS OF WAR	$750
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS	$750
Garidian Angels Medical Service Dog	$750

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $7k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$141k · 42 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$141k

$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+56%

Still filing today

50%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

JS
JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC
2× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +101%
AA
ADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +8%
PU
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
5× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +222%

Funded once

AF
ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC
one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +5%
SD
Santiago de Compstela Catholic Chur
one grant, 2017 · $4k
AA
Against All Odds Foundation
one grant, 2018 · $3k

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.

Shield of Faith Missions

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.

Religion

Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals

Partnership for Public Service Inc

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…

Employment

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.

—

National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

—

American Studies Center

To engage in nonpartisan analysis, study, and research into the interrelationship of governmental system activities and policies on the private sector of the united states and to make the results available to the public.

—

About Face Veterans Against the War

We work to build a service-member and veteran led movement that ends militarism by transforming ourselves, military culture and american society.

Public Benefit

Leashes of Valor

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…

Public Benefit

Pro Publica Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Air & Space Forces Association

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…

Education

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—

National Cable Satellite Corporation

Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 132 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)

56/56

Grantees still filing

45/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$155,505Public Benefit$15,070Recreation & Sports$11,592Human Services$9,795Philanthropy$8,830International$8,379Education$8,000

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.

Ebs FoundationTN22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 W A Mueller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The W A Mueller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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