Nevada · Private foundation
Donald Brian Miselis 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.
- $102k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Donald Brian Miselis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 12 | $102k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $82k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $68k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $30k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $37k | 82% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $18k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $16k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $10k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mendocino Land Trust | $140,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Harwood Memorial Park Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Eel River Recovery Project Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Institute for Justice | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Laytonville Long Valley Lioness Lions Club | $13,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Copper River Watershed Project | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mendocino Producers Guild | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Whittell Boosters Club Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Sos Outreach | $5,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald Brian Miselis 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: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Donald Brian Miselis Foundation
- How much does Donald Brian Miselis Foundation give?
- Donald Brian Miselis Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $102,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Donald Brian Miselis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (54%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Education (7%).
- Who are Donald Brian Miselis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mendocino Land Trust ($140k), The Harwood Memorial Park Inc ($50k), Eel River Recovery Project Inc ($30k).
- Does Donald Brian Miselis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald Brian Miselis 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 Donald Brian Miselis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Mendocino County, National Philanthropic Trust, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
- Where is Donald Brian Miselis Foundation based?
- Donald Brian Miselis Foundation is based in NV.
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