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Michaux Family 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.

$119k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$30k
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.

Education$169kPhilanthropy$158kHealth$124kEnvironment$55kPublic Benefit$50kHousing & Shelter$25kHuman Services$20kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
$4,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$338k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL$30,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
UNC CHAPEL HILL$17,541
FIRST TEE GREATER WISH$15,000
THE SIBLEY FOUNDATION$10,000
ANNE K TAYLOR FUND$5,000
COALITION FOR CAROLINA$4,000
FOXHALL FOUNDATION$3,000
LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$3,000
HOPECAM$2,500
WALKING MOUNTAINS SCIENCE CENTER$2,000
MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION$1,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$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 (FY23–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%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

WA
MN
WI
NY
OR
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
MS
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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$180k · 11 repeat orgs$557k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
24

Total granted

$180k
$452k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

91%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • NP
    NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +54%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +460%
  • AA
    ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNC CHAPEL HILL DISCRETIONARY FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • UC
    UNC CHAPEL HILL BUILDING FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • UC
    UNC CHANCELLORS DISCRETIONARY FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
2
Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute

The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute ALCMI is dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of new and more effective treatment options for lung cancer patients.

Health
3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
4
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

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5
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
6
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
9
Huntington's Disease Foundation

To fund transformative research to find treatments, and ultimately a cure, for huntington's disease.

Health
10
National Foundation for Cancer Research

To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.

Health
11
Curebound

Curebound's mission is to accelerate cancer research and save lives. we raise and invest strategic funding for innovative adult and pediatric cancer research with one vision: cures in our lifetime.

Health
12
Alliance for Childhood Diseases

To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Descents; the most unlike its peers is Foxhall Foundation. 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

24 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. 24 of the 44 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
11/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNC CHAPEL HILL DISCRETIONARY FUND: $100,000 · OtherUNC CHAPEL HILL DISCRETIONARY FUNDUNC CHAPEL HILL BUILDING FUND: $100,000 · OtherUNC CHAPEL HILL BUILDING FUNDUNC CHANCELLORS DISCRETIONARY FUND: $50,000 · OtherUNC CHANCELLORS DISCRETIONARY FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL: $30,000 · OtherFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONALST JOHNS COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $25,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $17,541 · Other+18 more: $92,250 · Other+18 moreNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $73,411 · HealthNATIONAL PKU AL…ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC: $20,000 · HealthASCENDIGO AUTIS…THE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthTHE MORGAN ADAM…+3 more: $5,000 · HealthFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $50,000 · Public BenefitTHE MOREHEAD-CAIN FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationFoxhall Foundation: $10,000 · EducationGUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC: $10,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationWALKING MOUNTAINS: $2,000 · EducationLos Cabos Children's Foundation: $15,000 · Human ServicesLEADERSHIP MISSION INTERNATIONAL: $7,500 · InternationalBULAMU INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · InternationalNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$514,791Health$104,411Public Benefit$50,000Education$39,000Human Services$15,000International$9,500Philanthropy$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $73,411 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLos Cabos Children's Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFoxhall Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetLEADERSHIP MISSION INTERNATIONAL: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPECAM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBULAMU INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRARE Hope Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…The Denver FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Network for Good
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN14.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Denver Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good

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 Michaux Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michaux Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 44 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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