· Private foundation
Bill & Linda Mitchell 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVE OUR SEABIRDS | $200,000 |
| THE SARASOTA BALLET | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE SARASOTA BALLET | $25,000 |
| NPH USA | $20,000 |
| GOLDEN DOOR SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| ARLINGTON FOOD ASSISTANCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| SPARCC | $10,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $10,000 |
| FORTY CARROTS FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $10,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SAVE OUR SEABIRDS | $10,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- SOSAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $488k · revenue +71%
- SBSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $154k · revenue +59%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ASA STEP UP ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +196%
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +43%
- CPCHILD'S PLAYone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +1%
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.
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
Spca florida exists to eliminate animal suffering and to engage the entire community in the welfare and well-being of animals.we accomplish this by advancing model programs to promote the adoption of healthy animals, prevent dog and cat…
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
To elevate the profession that transforms lives through the power of financial planning.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The circus arts conservatory's mission is to engage and educate students using unique and innovative learning programs; to measuraly improve the quality of life for individuals in care communities; and to advance the extraordinary legacy…
To secure the financial future of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities served by the arc tampa bay, inc. (continued on schedule o)this mission is accomplished through a comprehensive plan of building…
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Senior friendship centers, inc. (sfc) was founded in 1974 to reduce isolation & loneliness & to help seniors maintain their independence, preventing premature institutionalization. the mission is to support health, dignity & quality…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 54 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 SAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CITY POPS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN DOOR SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds A STEP UP ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD'S PLAY ↗
- Who funds BREAST HEALTH SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc ↗
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Arlington Food Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds Fly Compton Aeronautical Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OCEAN CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds LITERACY PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY AT GLENGARY INC ↗
- Who funds Potomac Appalachian Trail Club ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO WOMANS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS GUARDIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 SRQ INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Seidman Family Foundation · Getzen Family Charities Inc · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County · Boscia Family Foundation · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc
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 Bill & Linda Mitchell 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre 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.