· Public charity
Mikeroweworks Foundation
To debunk myths and misperceptions about the skilled trades and close the skills gap.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN EDUCATION ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC | $2,353,641 |
| TACT KIDS INC | $54,000 |
| CAFE MOMENTUM | $50,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AEAMERICAN EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +719% · 48% of their budget
- TKTACT KIDS INC2× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +306%
- ABASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS CRAFT TRAINING TRUST OF BALTIMORE2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue +91%
Funded once
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $741k · revenue +37%- STStand Together Foundationone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -97%
- AAAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +55%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Aacte elevates education and educator preparation through research, professional practice, advocacy, and collaboration.
Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…
The mission of ACCE is to be a leading advocate of quality construction programs and to promote, support, and accredit quality construction education programs in colleges and universities.
To be the premier provider of information and resources to assist schools, colleges and universities in the employment of educators for staffing excellence in education.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
ASC is a professional association for the development and advancement of construction education where the sharing of ideas and knowledge inspires guides and promotes excellence in curricula teaching research and service.
The mission of ace is to provide high school students and alternative educational opportunity to explore construction related careers through rigorous contextual, hands-on curriculum that prepares them for direct entry into college,…
The school was established to provide for students the highest levels of instruction and academic achievement combined with exemplary character development that will prepare them for post-secondary and apprenticeship education and…
To conduct educational and skill-advancement programs for employers and employees in the construction industry.
To advance the education, training, and career progression of young people and people from underrepresented groups, as skilled technical workers and as business owners in residential construction.
To sponsor apprenticeship and training programs in the construction industry for the benefit of the participating members.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholarship America Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Educational Assistance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SKILLSUSA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds TACT KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS CRAFT TRAINING TRUST OF BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds Associated Equipment Distributors ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds AID JOY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE HOUSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lime Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIRLS BUILD ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ABA ARIZONA BUILDERS' ALLIANCE ↗
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.
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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 Mikeroweworks Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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