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Mikesell Fdn at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$9,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$659k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FOODBANK INC$9,800
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 (FY21–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES: $5k → 14%GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES: $5k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $5k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $5k → 14%DAYBREAK: $8k → 14%DAYBREAK: $5k → 14%DAYBREAK: $5k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$173k · 9 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$173k
$9k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHealthOther
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

  • GD
    Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV
    3× · 2020–2023 · $26k · revenue +240%
  • CT
    CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $26k · revenue +14%
  • KI
    Kids in New Directions
    4× · 2020–2023 · $26k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE INTL PEAFCE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • TI
    THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland and East Central Ohio Inc

We empower people on their journey to independence through the sale of donated goods, which supports employment programs and family services.

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2
Daybreak Youth Services

Daybreak saves young lives by demonstrating love and bringing hope for their future.

Health
3
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.

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4
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan Inc

Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.

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5
Goodwill Industries of the Valley Works

Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.

Human Services
6
Dayton Christian Center Inc

To promote community by nuturing children and empowering familites in a christian environment by providing childcare services and supportive services for families.

Religion
7
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc

Working together to ensure everyone in our communities has the nutritious food they need every day.

Food & Nutrition
8
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
9
Goodwill Industries of the Valleys Inc

Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.

Employment
10
The Little Exchange Inc

The mission of the little exchange foundation is to maximize donations for its charitable endeavors, to oversee the strategic management of the little exchange retail establishment, and to provide an environment that promotes…

Arts & Culture
11
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank

The mission of the akron-canton regional foodbank is to lead a collaborative network that empowers people to experience healthy and hunger-free lives. we distribute food to feed people and we advocate, engage and convene our community in…

Food & Nutrition
12
The Goodwill Industries of Akron Ohio Inc

Goodwill industries of akron, ohio, inc is a not-for-profit corporation that helps individuals prepare for, find, and retain employment. goodwill serves the five-county region of summit, portage, medina, ashland, and richland. goodwill…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Easter Seals Miami Valley; the most unlike its peers is Daybreak Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Learning Tree Farm Inc: $25,929 · OtherThe Learning Tree Fa…THE INTL PEAFCE MUSEUM: $4,500 · OtherTHE INTL PEAFCE MUSE…THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE MUSEUM: $4,500 · OtherTHE INTERNATIONAL PE…DAYBREAK INC: $16,553 · Human ServicesDAYBREAK INCCLOTHES THAT WORK: $9,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES THAT WORKGRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES: $9,000 · Human ServicesGRACEWORKS LUTHERAN …Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV: $25,929 · Arts & CultureGreater Dayton …CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: $25,929 · EducationCRAYONS TO CLAS…Kids in New Directions: $25,929 · Youth DevelopmentKids in New Dir…GOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY: $25,929 · EmploymentGOODWILL EASTER…THE FOODBANK INC: $9,800 · Food & NutritionDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $9,000 · Health
Other$34,929Human Services$34,553Arts & Culture$25,929Education$25,929Youth Development$25,929Employment$25,929Food & Nutrition$9,800Health$9,000

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 budgetGreater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV: $25,929 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Learning Tree Farm Inc: $25,929 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: $25,929 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKids in New Directions: $25,929 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetGOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY: $25,929 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDAYBREAK INC: $16,553 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC: $9,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES THAT WORK: $9,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Dayton FoundationDayton Foundation Dep…Virginia W Kettering …Levin Family Foundati…Mathile Family Founda…Dayton Foundation Plu…Centerpoint Energy Fo…The Fred and Alice Wa…Iddings Benevolent Tr…The Dayton Power and …The United Way of the…The Leslie C Mapp Fou…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mikesell Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mikesell Fdn. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 12 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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