How much does Mikesell Fdn give?

Mikesell Fdn reported 1 grants totaling $9,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Mikesell Fdn fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (19%), Employment (18%), Arts & Culture (16%).

Who are Mikesell Fdn's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV ($26k), The Learning Tree Farm Inc ($26k), Crayons to Classrooms ($26k).

Does Mikesell Fdn fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mikesell Fdn 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 Mikesell Fdn?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dayton Foundation, Dayton Foundation Depository, Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

Mikesell Fdn

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.

$10k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 1
Grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2023: 10%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2025: $9,800
Largest grant, FY2025: $9,800
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 10; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $659k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Mikesell Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	1	$10k	100%
FY2023	10	$45k	10%
FY2022	8	$36k	38%
FY2021	7	$54k	29%
FY2020	5	$47k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$36kEmployment$35kArts & Culture$30kEducation$26kYouth Development$26kHuman Services$26kHealth$9kInternational$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV	$25,929	3	0%
The Learning Tree Farm Inc	$25,929	4	2%
Crayons to Classrooms	$25,929	4	0%
Kids in New Directions	$25,929	4	3%
Goodwill Easter Seals Miami Valley	$25,929	4	0%
Daybreak Inc	$16,553	3	0%
The Foodbank Inc	$9,800	1	0%
Clothes That Work	$9,000	2	0%
Graceworks Lutheran Services	$9,000	2	0%
Dayton Children's Hospital	$9,000	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mikesell Fdn supplied at peak.

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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 10.

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 Dayton FoundationOH21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Levin Family Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Fred and Alice Wallace Charitable Memorial Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · The Leslie C Mapp Foundation Xxxxx9007

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 Mikesell Fdn

How much does Mikesell Fdn give?: Mikesell Fdn reported 1 grants totaling $9,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Mikesell Fdn fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (19%), Employment (18%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are Mikesell Fdn's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV ($26k), The Learning Tree Farm Inc ($26k), Crayons to Classrooms ($26k).
Does Mikesell Fdn fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mikesell Fdn 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 Mikesell Fdn?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dayton Foundation, Dayton Foundation Depository, Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003.
Where is Mikesell Fdn based?: Mikesell Fdn is based in DE.