· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
| GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| HANDS FOR HOPE | $30,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $25,000 |
| KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ANSWERS TO LIFE | $15,000 |
| MIAMI VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| LIFE FORWARD FKA PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI | $15,000 |
| PURE HOPE COALITION | $15,000 |
| ALPINE CHAPEL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against -42% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +40%
Funded once
- HHHOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INCone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -42%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George and Deborah Mehl Family Foundation Inc C/O W Stuart Dornette funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George and Deborah Mehl Family Foundation Inc C/O W Stuart Dornette. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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