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Victor J Mueller Charitable and Educational Trust

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.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$61kHousing & Shelter$24kInternational$21kHuman Services$19kHealth$6kEducation$5k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$201k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cedarville University$3,000
CRU Foundation$2,250
Finish Line Ministries$2,000
Extollo Ineternational$2,000
Sunshine Ministries$2,000
CEF of Missouri Geataer St Louis$1,500
Grace Evangelical Ministries$1,000
Barnabus Foundation$1,000
Prenancy Help Center$1,000
Moody Bible Institute$750
Biblical Ministries Worldwide$750
Samaritans Purse$750
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Extollo International: $3k → 10%Casas Por Christo: $6k → 21%CRU Foundation: $4k → 13%Grace Evangelical Ministries: $1k → 11%Samaritans Purse: $1k → 21%Greater Europe Mission: $1k → 9%Cedarville University: $3k → 9%Finish Line Ministries: $2k → 15%Western Illinois University: $2k → 20%Extollo International: $3k → 10%Casas Por Christo: $5k → 21%CRU Foundation: $2k → 13%Greater Europe Mission: $1k → 9%Finish Line Ministries: $2k → 15%Extollo International: $3k → 10%Casas Por Christo: $5k → 21%CRU Foundation: $2k → 13%Greater Europe Mission: $1k → 9%Finish Line Ministries: $2k → 15%Extollo International: $3k → 10%Casas Por Christo: $5k → 21%CRU Foundation: $2k → 13%CEF of Greater Saint Louis: $2k → 11%Finish Line Ministries: $2k → 15%Extollo International: $3k → 10%Casas Por Christo: $5k → 21%CRU Foundation: $2k → 13%CEF of Greater Saint Louis: $2k → 11%Finish Line Ministries: $2k → 15%Extollo International: $3k → 10%CRU The Great Commission Foundation: $1k → 13%CEF of Greater Saint Louis: $2k → 11%Finish Line Ministries: $2k → 15%Extollo International: $2k → 10%CEF of Greater St Louis: $2k → 11%Extollo Ineternational: $2k → 10%CEF of Greater St Louis: $2k → 11%CEF of Missouri Geataer St Louis: $2k → 11%CEF of Greater St Louis: $2k → 11%Barean Mission Alliance: $2k → 11%CEF of Greater St Louis: $1k → 11%Pregnancy Help Center: $1k → 11%Pregnancy help Center: $1k → 11%Pregnancy Help Center: $1k → 11%Prenancy Help Center: $1k → 11%South County Bible Church: $3k → 11%South County Bible Church: $3k → 11%South County Bible Church: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$119k · 14 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$119k
$9k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHousing & ShelterInternationalHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • CP
    CASAS POR CRISTO
    5× · 2017–2021 · $24k · revenue +72%
  • EI
    EXTOLLO INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +34%
  • SM
    SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • BM
    Barean Mission Alliance
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • WI
    Western Illinois University
    one grant, 2018 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

2
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
3
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
4
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
5
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
6
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

7
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
8
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
9
Christ Mission College

Cmc passionately develops a students god-given potential in a practical process of biblical higher education, discipleship, and practical experience for sacrificial service in the church and community to expand gods kingdom in the world…

10
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education
11
Euromedia Missions
12
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Europe Mission and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CRU Foundation — $12,050 · OtherCRU FoundationSOUTH COUNTY BIBLE CHURCH — $7,900 · OtherSOUTH COUNTY BIBLE CHURCHPregnancy Help Center — $7,100 · OtherPregnancy Help CenterCEF of Greater St Louis — $5,800 · OtherCEF of Greater St LouisCEF of Greater Saint Louis — $5,500 · OtherCEF of Greater Saint LouisIndividual grant recipient — $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCRU The Great Commission Foundation — $2,400 · OtherBarean Mission Alliance — $2,000 · Other+10 more — $8,350 · Other+10 moreCASAS POR CRISTO — $24,150 · Housing & ShelterCASAS POR CRISTOEXTOLLO INTERNATIONAL — $19,600 · InternationalEXTOLLO INTERNAT…FINISH LINE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $11,300 · ReligionFINISH LINE MIN…GREATER EUROPE MISSION — $4,500 · ReligionGREATER EUROPE …SAMARITAN'S PURSE — $1,750 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PUR…BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · ReligionBARNABAS FOUNDA…SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC — $14,500 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE MIN…Cedarville University — $3,000 · EducationThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $1,350 · Education
Other$55,100Housing & Shelter$24,150International$19,600Religion$19,050Human Services$14,500Education$4,350

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCASAS POR CRISTO — $24,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEXTOLLO INTERNATIONAL — $19,600 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC — $14,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFINISH LINE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $11,300 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER EUROPE MISSION — $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 CASAS POR CRISTO
  • Who funds EXTOLLO INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds FINISH LINE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION
  • Who funds Cedarville University
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Victor J Mueller Charitable and Educational Trust 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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