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Mickelson 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.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$10kCommunity Improvement$8kHealth$7kHuman Services$3kInternational$2kCivil Rights$1kRecreation & Sports$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD$1,000
CENTER ON HALSTED$936
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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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Center on Halsted: $1k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $936 → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $700 → 14%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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20k · 5 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$20k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationAnimalsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BO
    BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
    7× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +62%
  • FW
    Francis W Parker School
    3× · 2018–2020 · $6k · revenue +38%
  • CF
    COLLABORATION FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD
    3× · 2018–2023 · $3k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +2%
  • CB
    CURE BLINDNESS PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • KD
    Kovler Diabetes Center
    one grant, 2019 · $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

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
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
2
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
3
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
4
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
5
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
6
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

The Jewish Council on Urban Affair's (JCUA) longstanding mission is to combat poverty, racism and antisemitism working in partnership with diverse communities. JCUA uses a community organizing model to engage the Jewish community in the…

Community Improvement
7
The Family Institute

Our mission is to strengthen and heal families and individuals from all walks of life through clinical service, education and research.

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8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
10
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare

Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Lyric Opera of Chicago

We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Howard Brown Health Center; the most unlike its peers is 51st Street Business Association. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $7,500 · OtherBACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILCURE BLINDNESS PROJECT: $2,000 · OtherCURE BLINDNESS PROJECTKovler Diabetes Center: $2,000 · OtherKovler Diabetes CenterThe Leukemia Lymphoma Society: $1,000 · OtherThe Leukemia Lymphoma SocietyHoward Brown Health Center: $1,000 · OtherHoward Brown Health CenterHadiya Pendleton Park Advisory Coun: $1,000 · OtherHadiya Pendleton Park Advisory CounTEMPLE SHOLOM OF CHICAGO: $1,000 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLOM OF CHICAGOCommunity Health: $600 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherFrancis W Parker School: $6,000 · EducationFrancis W Parker SchoolCOLLABORATION FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $3,000 · EducationCOLLABORATION FOR EARLY CHILDHOODFAMILY EQUALITY: $1,200 · EducationFAMILY EQUALITYWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INCCenter on Halsted: $2,636 · Human ServicesHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $2,000 · InternationalJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,000 · PhilanthropySHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $500 · Animals51st Street Business Association: $500 · Community Improvement
Other$16,600Education$11,200Human Services$2,636International$2,000Philanthropy$1,000Animals$500Community Improvement$500

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 budgetBACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $7,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLABORATION FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $2,636 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget51st Street Business Association: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The Chicago Community…
The Chicago Community TrustIL12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust

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 Mickelson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mickelson Family 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 18 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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