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Lloyd E Mitchell Foundation at a glance

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Lloyd E Mitchell Foundation

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.

$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$40kEducation$22kEnvironment$16kHealth$8kScience & Tech$7kCommunity Improvement$1k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$414k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Peabody Institute of JHU$3,000
Friends of the National Arboretum$3,000
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra$3,000
The Walters Art Museum$3,000
St Ignatius Loyola Academy$2,000
Sisters Academy$2,000
Mercy Medical Center$1,000
Mt Vernon Place Conservancy$1,000
Baltimore Tree Trust$1,000
Bon Secour Baltimore Health System$1,000
ReBuild METRO$1,000
Maryland Science Center$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Friends of the National Arboretum: $3k → 14%Sisters Academy: $2k → 11%St Ignatius Loyola Academy: $2k → 19%Friends of the National Arboretum: $3k → 14%Sisters Academy: $2k → 11%St Ignatius Loyola Academy: $2k → 19%Friends of the National Arboretum: $3k → 14%Sisters Academy: $2k → 11%Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy: $2k → 19%Friends of the National Arboretum: $3k → 14%Sisters Academy: $2k → 11%Maryland Science Center: $2k → 19%Friends of the National Arboretum: $3k → 14%Sisters Academy: $2k → 11%St Ignatius Loyola Academy: $2k → 19%St Ignatius Loyola Academy: $2k → 19%Maryland Science Center: $2k → 19%Maryland Science Center: $2k → 19%Maryland Science Center: $1k → 19%Maryland Science Center: $1k → 19%Preservation Maryland: $1k → 19%Preservation Maryland: $1k → 19%Preservation Maryland: $1k → 19%Baltimore Tree Trust: $1k → 19%Bon Secour Baltimore Health System: $1k → 19%Bon Secour Baltimore Health System: $1k → 19%Bon Secour Baltimore Health System: $1k → 19%Bon Secour Baltimore Health System: $1k → 19%ReBuild METRO: $1k → 19%Bon Secour Baltimore Health System: $1k → 19%Mercy Medical Center: $1k → 19%Peabody Institute of JHU: $3k → 19%The Walters Art Museum: $3k → 19%Peabody Institute of JHU: $3k → 19%The Walters Art Museum: $3k → 19%The Walters Art Museum: $3k → 19%Peabody Institute of JHU: $3k → 19%Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: $3k → 19%Peabody Institute of JHU: $3k → 19%The Walters Art Museum: $3k → 19%Peabody Institute of JHU: $3k → 19%The Walters Art Museum: $3k → 19%Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: $2k → 19%Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: $2k → 19%Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: $2k → 19%Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: $2k → 19%Mt Vernon Place Conservancy: $1k → 19%Mt Vernon Conservancy: $1k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 11 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$86k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+97%

Still filing today

36%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +49%
  • MA
    MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +62%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +219%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of the National Arboretumgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +97%
  • SI
    SAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Peabody Institute of JHU: $15,000 · OtherPeabody Institute of JHUThe Walters Art Museum: $15,000 · OtherThe Walters Art MuseumFriends of the National Arboretum: $12,000 · OtherFriends of the National ArboretumSisters Academy: $8,000 · OtherSisters AcademySt Ignatius Loyola Academy: $6,500 · OtherSt Ignatius Loyola AcademyBon Secour Baltimore Health System: $5,000 · OtherBon Secour Baltimore Health System+3 more: $4,500 · Other+3 moreBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCH…MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $6,500 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCI…SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERV…Friends of the National Arboretum: $3,000 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentMercy Medical Center: $2,500 · HealthREBUILD METRO INC: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$66,000Arts & Culture$19,500Environment$4,000Health$2,500Community Improvement$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the National Arboretum: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Medical Center: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILD METRO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the National Arboretum ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds REBUILD METRO INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC ↗

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.

Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…Associated Jewish Cha…Clayton Baker TrustBrown Advisory Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Clayton Baker Trust · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lloyd E Mitchell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lloyd E Mitchell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Baltimore Tree Trust Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
  • Rebuild Metro Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Medical Center: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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