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Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$322kFood & Nutrition$215kEducation$132kHealth$103kHuman Services$59kInternational$57kPhilanthropy$51kArts & Culture$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$40,000
FIRST NAPLES BAPTIST CHURCH$20,000
UNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$16,200
READING IN MOTION$10,000
AVOW HOSPICE$10,000
LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL$10,000
UNITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$8,000
LIFE BUILDERS$5,000
CANCER ASSOCIATION OF SPARTANBURG AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES INC$5,000
MIDTOWN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
NAPLES ZOO$5,000
VALERIE'S HOUSE$5,000
YOUNG LIFE SERVICE CENTER$2,500
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL$2,500
RAVINIA$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%GOLDEN HOUSE INC: $500 → 10%GILDA'S CLUB MADISON: $1k → 10%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 8%CHARITY WATER: $500 → 17%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%FOSTER THE VILLAGE: $10k → 10%CHARITY WATER: $500 → 17%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 8%AVOW HOSPICE: $25k → 10%UNITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: $8k → 10%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 8%AVOW HOSPICE: $15k → 10%UNITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: $6k → 10%AVOW HOSPICE: $10k → 10%UNITY HOSPICE: $6k → 10%AVOW HOSPICE: $5k → 10%ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE: $500 → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YCMA: $500 → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
NV
CA
CO
MO
VA
AR
TN
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$888k · 30 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
40

Total granted

$888k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+19%

Still filing today

60%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +83%
  • RI
    READING IN MOTION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +12%
  • AH
    AVOW Hospice Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $32k
  • FT
    Foster the Village Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +64%
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
3
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
4
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
5
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
6
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
7
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
Ascentria Care Alliance Inc

We are called to strengthen communities by empowering people to respond to life's challenges.

Human Services
10
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
11
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
12
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global 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

49 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. 49 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
35/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GB: $203,490 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GBFIRST NAPLES BAPTIST CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherFIRST NAPLES BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $26,200 · OtherUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHMISSION INC: $25,000 · Other+45 more: $164,835 · Other+45 moreFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $210,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDR…+1 more: $500 · InternationalAVOW Hospice Inc: $55,400 · Human ServicesAVOW Hospice IncLiving Water International: $38,500 · Human ServicesLiving Water Int…VALERIE'S HOUSE INC: $19,875 · Human ServicesVALERIE'S HOUSE …UNITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: $19,250 · Human ServicesUNITY LIMITED PA…Foster the Village Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesFoster the Villa…+5 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesREADING IN MOTION: $101,000 · Arts & CultureREADING IN …THE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,200 · Arts & CultureASPIRO INC: $20,000 · EducationMidtown-Metro Achievement Centers: $10,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$486,525International$210,500Human Services$146,525Arts & Culture$108,200Education$41,000Philanthropy$27,500Public Safety & Disaster$12,000

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 budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $210,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetREADING IN MOTION: $101,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetAVOW Hospice Inc: $55,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Water International: $38,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRO INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVALERIE'S HOUSE INC: $19,875 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: $19,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMidtown-Metro Achievement Centers: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoster the Village Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER ASSOCIATION OF SPARTANBURG & CHEROKEE COUNTIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCASA OF BROWN COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAwaken INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE ACTION MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeroy Springs & Company Inc: $1,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNERS CAUSE FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL'S PANTRY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGazelle Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 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.

George Kress Foundati…Green Bay Packers Fou…John and Engrid Meng …Wisconsin Public Serv…K C Stock Foundation …Schneider National Fo…Greater Green Bay Com…De Pere Christian Out…Baird Foundation IncElizabeth B and Phili…Bernard E and Alyce G…Cornerstone Foundatio…
George Kress Foundation IncWI30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mikulsky Hope Matters Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Valerie's House Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 77 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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