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Mielke Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$186k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Human Services$337kEmployment$25kRecreation & Sports$11kReligion$9kHealth$8kCrime & Legal$8kInternational$5kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$528k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$90,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY$60,000
Individual grant recipient$20,640
REDIFINING REFUGE INC$7,500
COYOTE HILL FOSTER CARE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,070
Individual grant recipient$348
OLUKAI$85
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COYOTE HILL: $10k → 17%COYOTE HILL: $5k → 17%COYOTE HILL: $5k → 17%HEART GALLERY OF TAMPA: $95k → 13%HEART GALLERY TAMPA: $89k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$417k · 12 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
21

Total granted

$417k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+103%

Still filing today

42%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • HG
    Heart Gallery of Tampa Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $184k · revenue +29%
  • VF
    VOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +461%
  • CH
    Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries
    3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +179%

Funded once

  • G
    GMS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Voices for Children Advocacy

Voices For Children is dedicated to serving the child victim and victim families of child abuse in Genesee & Shiawassee County and enhancing the lives of all children through education and increasing community involvement.

Crime & Legal
2
Covenant Children's Home Inc

Covenant childrens home is to provide a residence, food and clothing plus a continuum of care including physical, emotional, and spiritual nurturing for neglected, abandoned or abused children.

Human Services
3
Voices for Kids Casa Program of Southeast Virginia

To provide, promote and support quality volunteer advocacy for children, helping to endure a safe, permanent, and nurturing home for each child as quickly as possible.

Crime & Legal
4
Refuge City

Refuge city provides safe places for children in dallas / ft. worth (dfw) who have been sex trafficked or sexually exploited to achieve restoration, education, and reintegration in a family-focused environment through the love of jesus…

Human Services
5
Voices for Children

Voices for children transforms the lives of abused children by providing them with court appointed special advocates (casas).

Civil Rights
6
Friends of the Children - Coachella Valley

Friends of the children coachella valley (friends cv) has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92%…

Human Services
7
The Childrens House

To reduce trauma to children who have experienced abuse as well as their families by providing a safe and supportive environment through a collaboration of community agencies.

8
Forever Homes for Foster Kids

helping kids find their parents or legal custodians

Food & Nutrition
9
Voices for Childrencourt Appointed Spec Advocates

Assist abused children in legal matters

Crime & Legal
10
Hope for the Fatherless

HFTF serves orphaned and vulnerable children in Ethiopia, and its mission is to see every child thriving in a loving family. HFTF accomplishes this through five primary initiatives: in-country adoption training and placement, family…

International
11
Advocacy Network for Children

To protect and uphold the rights of children when wrongs have been committed against them, to help abused or neglected children have safe permanent homes where they can thrive, to act as a powerful voice in these children's best interests…

Civil Rights
12
Friends of the Children- Tampa Bay Inc

Friends of the children tampa bay has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices for Children of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Venice Touchdown Club. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $77,644 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY INC — $75,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY INCIndividual grant recipient — $36,120 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+26 more — $79,144 · Other+26 moreHeart Gallery of Tampa Inc — $184,359 · Human ServicesHeart Gallery of Tampa IncCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries — $20,000 · Human ServicesCoyote Hill Foster Care MinistriesREDEFINING REFUGE INC — $7,500 · Crime & LegalSANYUKA CHILDRENS MINISTRIES — $5,000 · InternationalGIRL POWER 2 CURE DBA RETT UNIVERSITY — $2,546 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentVENICE TOUCHDOWN CLUB — $1,000 · Education
Other$357,908Human Services$204,359Crime & Legal$7,500International$5,000Health$2,546Youth Development$1,000Education$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHeart Gallery of Tampa Inc — $184,359 over 2y, 18% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREDEFINING REFUGE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSANYUKA CHILDRENS MINISTRIES — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGIRL POWER 2 CURE DBA RETT UNIVERSITY — $2,546 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE TOUCHDOWN CLUB — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 Heart Gallery of Tampa Inc
  • Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY INC
  • Who funds Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries
  • Who funds REDEFINING REFUGE INC
  • Who funds SANYUKA CHILDRENS MINISTRIES
  • Who funds GIRL POWER 2 CURE DBA RETT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
  • Who funds VENICE TOUCHDOWN CLUB

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Mielke Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mielke Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mielke 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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