· Private foundation
George and Deborah Mehl Family Foundation Inc C/O W Stuart Dornette
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of GEORGE AND DEBORAH MEHL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC C/O W STUART DORNETTE’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $288k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY GOSPEL MISSION | $68,400 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE OF ARIZONA | $60,000 |
| PRECEPT INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
| HANDS FOR HOPE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $25,000 |
| LIFE FORWARD FKA PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ANSWERS TO LIFE | $15,000 |
| PURE HOPE COALITION | $15,000 |
| MIAMI VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| ALPINE CHAPEL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +100% since the first grant, against -42% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PRPUSCH RIDGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +147%
- MVMIAMI VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +250%
- CGCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES8× · 2017–2024 · $624k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- HHHOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INCone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -42%
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.
Our mission. to seek out and save the lost and help the needy and also to spread the word of god as written in the holy bible.
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Religious
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
Religious Purposes
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Spread the Christianity
To deliver the message of Jesus
Church ministry
Teach the ministry of christ
Ministries church
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the most unlike its peers is Jesus in Vietnam Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 PUSCH RIDGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Answers For Life ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PUREHOPE COALITION ↗
- Who funds JESUS IN VIETNAM MINISTRIES ↗
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: United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 George and Deborah Mehl Family Foundation Inc C/O W Stuart Dornette 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.
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