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Lisa Mitchell Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $6,900 |
| USA MITCHELL CANCER INSTITUTE | $6,900 |
| MOBILE AREA JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,100 |
| UMS WRIGHT SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY SO WEST | $1,000 |
| USA HEALTH | $1,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $600 |
| OUR SISTERS' CLOSET | $300 |
| MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART | $250 |
| CONG AHAVAS CHESED | $200 |
| AMERICA HEART ASSOC | $200 |
| ST JUDE | $100 |
| RONALD MCDONALD | $100 |
| EXPLOREUM | $100 |
| VIA | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your 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.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- OSOur Sisters Closet Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +99%
- PHPENELOPE HOUSE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +3%
- TCTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- RDRAMAH DAROM INCone grant, 2022 · $1k
- SCSenior Citizens Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +72%
- MAMobile Arts Council Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $650 · revenue +88%
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 cultivate the arts in Jefferson County and the State of Alabama.
The Magic City Acceptance Academy (MCAA) facilitates a community in which all learners are empowered to embrace education, achieve individual success, and take ownership of their future in a positive learning environment.
To coordinate and to encourage cultural endeavors and to promote knowledge and appreciation of the arts and humanities in southeast alabama.
The purpose of the organization is to make lives better through music by producing and promoting symphonic music and delivering music education programs throughout Alabama and the Gulf Coast region.
To deliver the highest quality training in an atmosphere of creativity, challenge, encouragement, and integrity.
The musical theater center's mission is to share the joy of children's theater with many diverse audiences. it strives to be a positive force in the community by providing exceptional musical theater stage productions made up entirely of…
The Center operates in Southwest Alabama providing counseling and guidance to individuals, families, and groups experiencing problems related to stress, family discord, parenting, phobias, aging, rape, and financial difficulties.
The Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center connects people of all ages and abilities with visual arts education, exhibitions, and other creative experiences.
Inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theater, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts.
To present a forum for business and citizens where an exchange of ideas can occur that will make Mobile a better place to live, work and do business.
The mission of the Arc of Tuscaloosa County is to provide activities to persons residing in Tuscaloosa County who have developmental or intellectual disabilities, which enable the individual to maintain previously acquired skills/behaviors…
The mission of alabama contemporary is to support cultural production, provide space for courageous conversations that shape identity, and seed growth in the greater creative economy. we support living artists, and through our educational,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mobile Arts Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reading Is Fundamental Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 47 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 MOBILE AREA JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Our Sisters Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds PENELOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Senior Citizens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Mobile Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds BARTON ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Herbert a Meisler Charitable Foundation · The Miller Charitable Foundation Inc · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Dog Hill Foundation · Mary J Larkins Charitable Foundation · Skyros Benevolent Society
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 Lisa 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.
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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