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Mika Foundation Inc

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
69%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$49,008
Largest grant, FY2025
$206,016
Organizations funded a year
4 to 29
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$7k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Mika Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving26$1.8M0%
FY202429$230k69%
FY202313$42k46%
FY202210$99k90%
FY20214$97kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Animals$2.0MEnvironment$270kFood & Nutrition$2kRecreation & Sports$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc$200,43052%
Adopt an Angel$139,861421%
The Bow Wow Buddies Foundation Inc$131,92447%
Paws for Life Nc$125,846325%
Triangle Rabbits$124,634454%
Lewis County Humane Society Inc$122,01922%
East Coast Rabbit Rescue Inc$122,013254%
Panther Ridge Conservation Center Inc$105,01521%
American Wildlife Refuge Inc$104,01825%
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Association$67,41141%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Mika Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc$200,43052%
Adopt an Angel$139,861421%
The Bow Wow Buddies Foundation Inc$131,92447%
Paws for Life Nc$125,846325%
Triangle Rabbits$124,634454%
Lewis County Humane Society Inc$122,01922%
East Coast Rabbit Rescue Inc$122,013254%
Panther Ridge Conservation Center Inc$105,01521%
American Wildlife Refuge Inc$104,01825%
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Association$67,41141%
Animalkind Inc$57,509310%
Freedom Ride Rescue$56,51432%
The American Chestnut Foundation$54,01721%
Operation Catnip Inc$54,013230%
Hope Animal Rescue$54,009213%
Friends of Wake County Animal Center Inc$54,00723%
Davidson Lands Conservancy Inc$32,97931%
The Grey Muzzle Organization$25,19821%
Second Chance Pet Adoptions Inc$25,19622%
North Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc$25,19121%
Friends of the WNC Nature Center Inc$25,18721%
Carolina Tiger Rescue$25,18521%
Perfectly Imperfect Pups$25,18221%
Blue Ridge Conservancy$23,60910%
Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary$18,90027%
Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary$10,00012%
Save the Chimps Inc$6,01110%
The Produce Project$2,1931n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($486k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mika Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $200,430 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetAdopt an Angel: $139,861 over 4y, 21% of budgetThe Bow Wow Buddies Foundation Inc: $131,924 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetPaws for Life Nc: $125,846 over 3y, 25% of budgetTriangle Rabbits: $124,634 over 4y, 54% of budgetLewis County Humane Society Inc: $122,019 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEast Coast Rabbit Rescue Inc: $122,013 over 2y, 54% of budgetPanther Ridge Conservation Center Inc: $105,015 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Wildlife Refuge Inc: $104,018 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Association: $67,411 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAnimalkind Inc: $57,509 over 3y, 10% of budgetFreedom Ride Rescue: $56,514 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe American Chestnut Foundation: $54,017 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOperation Catnip Inc: $54,013 over 2y, 30% of budgetHope Animal Rescue: $54,009 over 2y, 13% of budgetFriends of Wake County Animal Center Inc: $54,007 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDavidson Lands Conservancy Inc: $32,979 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Grey Muzzle Organization: $25,198 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSecond Chance Pet Adoptions Inc: $25,196 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc: $25,191 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of the WNC Nature Center Inc: $25,187 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCarolina Tiger Rescue: $25,185 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPerfectly Imperfect Pups: $25,182 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBlue Ridge Conservancy: $23,609 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPossumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary: $18,900 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetJungle Friends Primate Sanctuary: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSave the Chimps Inc: $6,011 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 27.

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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.

Duke Energy FoundationThe Duffield Family F…Humane World for Anim…Triangle Community Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Foundation for the Ca…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…
Duke Energy FoundationNC19.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Humane World for Animals Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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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About Mika Foundation Inc

How much does Mika Foundation Inc give?
Mika Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $1,836,641 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 29 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Mika Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (88%), Environment (12%), Food & Nutrition (0%).
Who are Mika Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ($200k), Adopt an Angel ($140k), The Bow Wow Buddies Foundation Inc ($132k).
Does Mika Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mika Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mika Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund, Humane World for Animals Inc.
Where is Mika Foundation Inc based?
Mika Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 39 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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