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Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Mayer & Arlene 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.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$294kRecreation & Sports$202kArts & Culture$56kReligion$32kPhilanthropy$27kYouth Development$21kHuman Services$17kHealth$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$400
Median grant
3
States reached
$169k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$7,110
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA$5,500
FRIENDS OF MUNICIPAL PARK$5,000
MA'ALOT$5,000
MOBILE SYMPHONY$5,000
MOBILE AREA JEWISH FEDERATION$2,500
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WEST AL$2,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS$1,500
IMPACT 100 MOBILE$1,100
SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES$1,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$1,000
PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
CHABAD OF MOBILE$1,000
RAPAHOPE$750
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%FRIENDS OF MUNICIPAL PARK: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
CT
NE
MO
TN
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 59 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
41

Total granted

$2.2M
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+9%

Still filing today

44%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • SH
    SPRING HILL COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +6%
  • MS
    Mobile Symphony Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +38%
  • RC
    Rapahope Childrens Retreat Foundation Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • RD
    RAMAH DAROM
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MA
    MOBILE AREA CHAMBER--SHELBY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • WP
    Woodside Prairie Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -64%
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

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.

1
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc

The Organization was formed to build, own and operate a Ronald McDonald House in Mobile, Alabama. The facility provides overnight lodging for children and their parents who travel long distances to Mobile area hospitals for various…

Human Services
2
Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc

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.

Human Services
3
Montgomery Cancer Wellness Foundation

To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources

Health
4
The Junior League of Mobile Al Inc

Organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

Community Improvement
5
Mobile United Inc

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.

Community Improvement
6
Mobile County Emergency Medical Services System

Provider of rural pre-hospital care, emergency medical education and training and medical dispatch communications

Health
7
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.

Crime & Legal
8
The Medical Foundation of Alabama

To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects

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9
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
10
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
11
Covenant Academy of Mobile

Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.

Human Services
12
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 107 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,518,732 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAIEF: $225,000 · OtherAIEFCRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION: $155,620 · OtherCRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION+78 more: $267,210 · Other+78 moreMobile Symphony Inc: $35,500 · Arts & CultureMobile Arts Council Inc: $2,350 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSPRING HILL COLLEGE: $36,169 · EducationPRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $2,250 · EducationMOBILE AREA JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $11,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT100 MOBILE: $3,300 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,900 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF MUNICIPAL PARK: $5,000 · Human ServicesPENELOPE HOUSE INC: $1,400 · Human ServicesOur Sisters Closet Inc: $400 · Human ServicesFUSE PROJECT: $250 · Human Services+2 more: $350 · Human ServicesWoodside Prairie Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterMcKemie Place Inc: $2,200 · Housing & ShelterRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $2,250 · HealthMITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $1,800 · HealthBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $1,200 · Health+4 more: $450 · Health
Other$2,166,562Arts & Culture$38,850Education$38,419Philanthropy$30,200Human Services$7,400Housing & Shelter$7,200Health$5,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPRING HILL COLLEGE: $36,169 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMobile Symphony Inc: $35,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetRapahope Childrens Retreat Foundation Inc: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE AREA JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $14,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSenior Citizens Services Inc: $11,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE BALLET INC: $10,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION: $9,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDrug Education Council Inc: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWoodside Prairie Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetIMPACT100 MOBILE: $3,300 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJH ISRAEL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMobile Arts Council Inc: $2,350 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMcKemie Place Inc: $2,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $2,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPENELOPE HOUSE INC: $1,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,365 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD METHODIST EVANGELISM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE OPERA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM FOCUS INC: $900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE OF SPRING HILL INC: $850 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEARNING TREE INC: $435 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOur Sisters Closet Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFUSE PROJECT: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHAB: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A STRAY: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAGUAR ATHLETIC FUND INC: $100 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 SPRING HILL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Mobile Symphony Inc ↗
  • Who funds Rapahope Childrens Retreat Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE AREA JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Senior Citizens Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds UMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MUNICIPAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds Woodside Prairie Inc ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT100 MOBILE ↗
  • Who funds JH ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds Mobile Arts Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER 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.

Crampton Trust #12550…The Daniel Foundation…Joy M & James Grodnic…Alabama Power Foundat…J L Bedsole Foundatio…Cd Helen and Jeff Gla…Herbert a Meisler Cha…The Catranis Family C…The Miller Charitable…The Ben May Charitabl…Hearin - Chandler Fou…Lisa Mitchell Charita…
Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank TrusteeAL45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Herbert a Meisler Charitable Foundation · The Catranis Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Miller Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Lisa Mitchell Charitable 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 Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 107 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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