Florida · Private foundation
Mikulsky Hope Matters 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.
- $149k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $149k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $149k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $132k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $124k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $133k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $79k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $94k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $71k | 64% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $210,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Reading in Motion | $101,000 | 9 | 3% |
| AVOW Hospice Inc | $55,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Living Water International | $38,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Unity Presbyterian Church | $26,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Aspiro Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Valerie's House Inc | $19,875 | 2 | 0% |
| Unity Limited Partnership | $19,250 | 3 | 0% |
| The Global Orphan Project Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Reno-Sparks Gospel Mission Incorporated | $11,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($364k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: George Kress Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · De Pere Christian Outreach · Baird Foundation Inc · Elizabeth B and Philip J Hendrickson Foundation Ltd · Bernard E and Alyce G Dahlin Foundation Inc · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc
How this is measured
Compare Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc with peer funders
About Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc
- How much does Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc give?
- Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $148,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Education (13%).
- Who are Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Feed My Starving Children Inc ($210k), Reading in Motion ($101k), AVOW Hospice Inc ($55k).
- Does Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mikulsky Hope Matters 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 Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George Kress Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, John and Engrid Meng Inc.
- Where is Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc based?
- Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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