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Mirapaul Foundation at a glance

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Mirapaul Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$362k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$489kInternational$231kHealth$214kFood & Nutrition$200kEnvironment$145kCivil Rights$134kPublic Safety & Disaster$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $140k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$3,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW DIRECTIONS$65,000
DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL$30,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH$22,000
RAILS-TO-TRAILS CONSERVANCY$15,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$15,000
77 FLAVORS OF CHICAGO$12,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA$12,000
SANDBOX PERCUSSION$10,600
SOCIAL IMPACT FUND$10,000
412 FOOD RESCUE$10,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$10,000
CONTEMPORARY CRAFT$10,000
STORM KING (MARK DION ACQUISITION FUND)$8,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS$7,500
SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY$7,500
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, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER (DWC): $500 → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER (DWC): $500 → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER (DWC): $500 → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $4k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $4k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $1k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $1k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $1k → 14%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $6k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $6k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $6k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%GIRLS WHO CODE: $1k → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 65 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
59

Total granted

$2.8M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+11%

Still filing today

82%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalFood & NutritionEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • OT
    OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +29%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +94%
  • WT
    Writers Theatre Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF EVANSTON
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • FC
    FAME CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • HT
    HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +151%
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
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
5
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
6
Via Art Fund Inc

Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.

Arts & Culture
7
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
8
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
11
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
12
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is W Eugene Smith Memorial Fund 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

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 146 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/107
Grantees still filing
64/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW DIRECTIONS INC: $534,000 · OtherNEW DIRECTIONS INCCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $109,000 · OtherCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGHCARNEGIE MUSEUM: $106,000 · OtherCARNEGIE MUSEUMTHE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS: $67,500 · OtherCITY OF ASYLUM: $47,500 · Other+70 more: $423,220 · Other+70 moreOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $259,500 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MU…Writers Theatre Inc: $172,000 · Arts & CultureWriters Theatre IncAKRON ART MUSEUM: $57,500 · Arts & CultureAKRON ART MUSEUMSILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+29 more: $182,545 · Arts & Culture+29 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $217,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIE…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $66,250 · InternationalWORLD CENTRA…HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 · InternationalREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $11,750 · International+5 more: $23,000 · International+5 moreGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $120,000 · Food & Nutrition412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $55,750 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $7,000 · Food & NutritionPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $82,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC: $74,000 · HealthELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · HealthABORTION CARE NETWORK: $11,000 · HealthWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $8,000 · Health+5 more: $9,400 · HealthRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $150,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $10,000 · Environment+4 more: $5,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsElevated Access Inc: $22,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $13,000 · Civil RightsYellowhammer Fund: $12,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,287,220Arts & Culture$706,545International$333,500Food & Nutrition$212,750Health$197,900Environment$165,500Civil Rights$143,000

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 budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $534,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $259,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $217,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $172,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $150,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $120,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $82,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC: $74,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS: $67,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $66,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAKRON ART MUSEUM: $57,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $55,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCITY OF ASYLUM: $47,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY: $35,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE: $23,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetElevated Access Inc: $22,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD: $21,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetW EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC: $20,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetFAME CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDBOX PERCUSSION INC: $13,845 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetESPERANZA INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $11,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAMBIA INC: $11,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARE FOR REAL: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSkystone Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $9,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Inspirational Voices Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO INDUSTRIAL ARTS AND DESIGN CENTER NFP: $7,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetARTISTS IMAGE RESOURCE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $6,000 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.

  • Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF ASYLUM ↗
  • Who funds SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Elevated Access Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD ↗
  • Who funds W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FAME CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN THEATRE WING INC ↗
  • Who funds Yellowhammer Fund ↗

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 Chicago Community…The Fine FoundationForefrontThe Heinz EndowmentsJohn D and Catherine …Hillman Family Founda…McKinney Charitable F…Giant Eagle FoundationThe Buhl FoundationReva and David Logan …Opportunity FoundationDr Scholl Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL20.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Fine Foundation · Forefront · The Heinz Endowments · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · McKinney Charitable Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 146 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home