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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of MAYER & ARLENE MITCHELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,110 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $5,500 |
| MOBILE SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| MA'ALOT | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MUNICIPAL PARK | $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 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES | $1,000 |
| CHABAD OF MOBILE | $1,000 |
| RAPAHOPE | $750 |
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.
Your 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SHSPRING HILL COLLEGE2× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +6%
- MSMobile Symphony Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +38%
- RCRapahope Childrens Retreat Foundation Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- RDRAMAH DAROMone grant, 2022 · $10k
- WPWoodside Prairie Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -64%
- MAMOBILE AREA CHAMBER--SHELBYone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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…
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.
To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources
Organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
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.
Provider of rural pre-hospital care, emergency medical education and training and medical dispatch communications
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.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
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.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 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. 44 of the 107 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 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 Woodside Prairie Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MUNICIPAL PARK ↗
- Who funds IMPACT100 MOBILE ↗
- Who funds JH ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds Mobile Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Mayer & Arlene 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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