· Private foundation
Carl and Lulu Mitchell Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
- $250k+1 grant · $501k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF CLOVIS SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER | $501,000 |
| 3 ANGELS BROADCASTING NETWORK | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MARJAREE MASON CENTER | $100,000 |
| POVERELLO HOUSE | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA 911 MEMORIAL | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CA | $10,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA | $10,000 |
| GRACEBOUND | $3,000 |
| FRESNO CENTRAL SDA CHURCH | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $445k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $611k 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
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL6× · 2017–2022 · $600k · revenue +55%
- CHCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $600k · revenue +22%
MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $325k · revenue +172%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -21%- UTUCSF THE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2019 · $25k
- CSCalifornia State University Fresnoone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
To support health care activities and programs for the benefit of, and to provide health care services to, children and adults in central california with diseases, disorders and other health problems of pediatric origin, and to enhance the…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
To ensure that children with complex health care needs have access to timely and high quality medical care, and that pediatric specialists are able to thrive in californias health care
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
To render aid and obtain and administer funds and other property to be used in furtherance of the purposes of valley presbyterian hospital.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation eliminates barriers and enhances the capabilities of Contra Costa Health Services and the community to improve the saftey, health, and wellness of every Contra Costa County resident.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Hospitals of Central California Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Buchanan Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Break the Barriers Inc ↗
- Who funds Poverello House ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 9-11 MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds BUCHANAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Gracebound 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: Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation · Leon S Peters Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Smittcamp Family Foundation · Isnardi Foundation · The Fansler Foundation · Gl Bruno Family Foundation · Valley Children's Hospital · Briscoe Family Foundation · Educational Employees Credit Union · Living Legacy Foundation · United Way California Capital Region
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 Carl and Lulu Mitchell Family 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.
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.