· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $6,900 |
| USA MITCHELL CANCER INSTITUTE | $6,900 |
| MOBILE AREA JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,100 |
| USA HEALTH | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY SO WEST | $1,000 |
| UMS WRIGHT SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $600 |
| OUR SISTERS' CLOSET | $300 |
| MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART | $250 |
| CONG AHAVAS CHESED | $200 |
| AMERICA HEART ASSOC | $200 |
| RONALD MCDONALD | $100 |
| JEWISH CHILD REGIONAL SERVICE | $100 |
| EXPLOREUM | $100 |
| VIA | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSOur Sisters Closet Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +112%
- PHPENELOPE HOUSE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +3%
- MPMITCHELL'S PLACE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- RDRAMAH DAROM INCone grant, 2022 · $1k
- SCSenior Citizens Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +72%
- MHMOBILE HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $650
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.
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,…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 47 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 MOBILE AREA JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Our Sisters Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds PENELOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER 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 READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds BARTON ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lisa Mitchell Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lisa Mitchell Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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