· Private foundation
Douglas E Mitchell Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of DOUGLAS E MITCHELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MINNEAPOLIS - LEAGUEAIRES DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| GROVES ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL (NOLS) | $2,000 |
| HARVEST HILLS ANIMAL SHELTER | $2,000 |
| THE PINK FUND | $2,000 |
| HEALING HEARTS CONNECTION | $2,000 |
| BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS | $2,000 |
| EQUALITYMAINE FOUNDATION | $1,750 |
| MAINE NEEDS | $1,750 |
| 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY | $1,250 |
| MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| METAVIVIR RESEARCH & SUPPORT INC | $1,000 |
| MARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- GAGROVES ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +58%
- IOINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +21%
- DCDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY4× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- BGBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELANDone grant, 2017 · $15k
- NONATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +8%
- CKCYCLE KIDS INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -22%
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 maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
The organization provides specialized, life saving intervention for animals with unique characteristics and needs that render them unadoptable by shelter standards.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Therapeutic Riding Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kopelion Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 77 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds PINK FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HILLS ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HEARTS CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds Circle of Health International ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERE FOR THE GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds KOPELION INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds EqualityMaine Foundation ↗
- Who funds CYCLE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds EqualityMaine ↗
- Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds MAINE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds POSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Elevated Access 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Xeric Foundation · Onion Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
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 Douglas E Mitchell Charitable 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.
- Postpartum Support International — 43% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Parents' Place of Maryland Inc — 30% 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.
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