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Michelle's Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$413k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,317
Largest grant, FY2024
$256,988
Organizations funded a year
10 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$640k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Michelle's Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$413k38%
FY202311$307k27%
FY202212$220k17%
FY202110$162k40%
FY202023$154k39%
FY201925$217k40%
FY201828$220k36%
FY201731$243kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.8MHuman Services$62kAnimals$30kHealth$18kHousing & Shelter$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kFood & Nutrition$5kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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WI
NY
OH
CA
CO
VA
AZ
AL
GA
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FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Keys Learning Center LLC$550,900841%
The Learning Center of Key West Inc$62,00046%
University of Florida$49,3916n/a
Florida State University$21,4694n/a
Florida Keys Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc$20,00011%
Jacksonville University$19,58130%
Ascendium Education Group Inc$19,00020%
Barry University Inc$13,71910%
Samuel's House Inc$10,20021%
Key West Wildlife Center Inc$10,00012%
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All grantees of Michelle's Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Keys Learning Center LLC$550,900841%
The Learning Center of Key West Inc$62,00046%
University of Florida$49,3916n/a
Florida State University$21,4694n/a
Florida Keys Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc$20,00011%
Jacksonville University$19,58130%
Ascendium Education Group Inc$19,00020%
Barry University Inc$13,71910%
Samuel's House Inc$10,20021%
Key West Wildlife Center Inc$10,00012%
Regis University$8,85010%
Indian River State College$4,5331n/a
Santa Fe College$3,9352n/a
Marion Military Institute$2,2551n/a
Thomas Jefferson School of Law$2,00010%
Saint Leo University Inc$1,07310%
Chabad of Key West Inc$1,0001n/a
Daytona State College$8531n/a
Key Largo School Drama Club$7501n/a
Autism Speaks Inc$50010%

Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Michelle's Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKeys Learning Center LLC: $550,900 over 8y, 41% of budgetThe Learning Center of Key West Inc: $62,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetFlorida Keys Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJacksonville University: $19,581 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAscendium Education Group Inc: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBarry University Inc: $13,719 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamuel's House Inc: $10,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKey West Wildlife Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRegis University: $8,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson School of Law: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Leo University Inc: $1,073 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Michelle's Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Michelle's Foundation Inc 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.

About Michelle's Foundation Inc

How much does Michelle's Foundation Inc give?
Michelle's Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $412,945 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Michelle's Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (93%), Human Services (3%), Animals (2%).
Who are Michelle's Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Keys Learning Center LLC ($551k), The Learning Center of Key West Inc ($62k), University of Florida ($49k).
Does Michelle's Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Michelle's Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michelle's Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Michelle's Foundation Inc based?
Michelle's Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 74 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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