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Mistler Charitable Trust at a glance

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Mistler Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$137k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$156kEducation$98kInternational$85kHuman Services$60kYouth Development$38kReligion$34kPhilanthropy$28kCrime & Legal$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION$10,000
33 SPINE ALIGN INC$10,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA CURE ALZHEIMERS$10,000
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$8,000
SWINGPALS INC$5,000
HOPE FOUNDATION$5,000
READING POWER INC$5,000
SUNICA INC$5,000
WORLD AWAKENING MINISTRIES$5,000
SEARSTONE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION$5,000
LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY$5,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON$5,000
SAFECHILD$5,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR$5,000
NORTH CAROLINA DISASTER RELIEF FUND$4,000
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 (FY20–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LAKE TRAVIS CRISIS MINISTRIES: $5k → 10%VETERANS RELIEF NETWORK: $15 → 15%HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%HOPE FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%HOPE FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $2k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $1k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $1k → 8%HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC: $2k → 8%HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC: $2k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $1k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $1k → 8%HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN: $1k → 8%HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC: $1k → 8%HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC: $500 → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $1k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $1k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $1k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $1k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $1k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $1k → 8%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN ACTION DBA DORCAS MINISTRIES: $1k → 8%BRIDGE THE GAP MISSION: $500 → 8%SEARSTONE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%SEARSTONE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 8%SEARSTONE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 8%SEARSTONE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%SEARSTONE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%SEARSTONE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 8%SEARSTONE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $2k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $2k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $1k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT INC: $500 → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $500 → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT INC: $500 → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $500 → 8%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$561k · 66 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
42

Total granted

$561k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+11%

Still filing today

70%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • 3S
    33 SPINEALIGN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue ×16
  • BB
    BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +111%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • SA
    SIGNATURE AWAKENING MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • LT
    LAKE TRAVIS CRISIS MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +21%
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
5
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…

Health
6
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
7
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
8
Patient Access Network Foundation

As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…

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9
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
10
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

—
11
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
12
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read and Feed; the most unlike its peers is Lucy Daniels Foundation. 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

81 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. 81 of the 117 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/81
Grantees still filing
55/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND: $26,000 · OtherCURE ALZHEIMER'S FUNDKANSAS STATE FOUNDATION: $21,500 · OtherKANSAS STATE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWOMEN INTERNATIONAL LEADERS GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · OtherWOMEN INTERNATIONAL LEADERS GREATER PHILADELPHIAFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $13,800 · OtherSIGNATURE AWAKENING MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $20,000 · OtherLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA+61 more: $142,570 · Other+61 more33 SPINEALIGN INC: $50,000 · International33 SPINEALIGN INCBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $39,500 · InternationalBROTHER'S BROTHER…SuNica Inc: $11,000 · InternationalSuNica IncSEARSTONE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $17,000 · Human ServicesSEARSTONE RES…HOPE FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $11,500 · Human ServicesHOPE FOUNDATI…SE RALEIGH PROMISE INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesSE RALEIGH PR…THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE CENT…INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $6,000 · Human ServicesINTER-FAITH F…LAKE TRAVIS CRISIS MINISTRIES: $5,000 · Human ServicesLAKE TRAVIS C…URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesURBAN MINISTR…READ AND FEED: $4,000 · Human ServicesSTEPUP MINISTRY: $4,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $3,500 · Human Services+5 more: $6,015 · Human Services+5 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $9,500 · HealthALLIANCE ME…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $5,500 · HealthPLANNED PAR…NEW LEAF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $5,000 · HealthNEW LEAF BE…HAVEN HOUSE INC: $4,000 · HealthHAVEN HOUSE…DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $4,000 · HealthDEMENTIA AL…NAMI National: $3,000 · Health+5 more: $4,007 · Health+5 moreKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EducationKANSAS ST…Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: $8,000 · EducationSigma Alp…Southern Methodist University: $6,500 · EducationSouthern …Purdue Research Foundation: $5,000 · EducationPurdue Re…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY: $4,500 · EducationCOMMUNITI…YEAR UP INC: $3,000 · EducationYEAR UP I…+4 more: $2,150 · EducationREADING POWER INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentSWINGPALS INC: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $5,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentSAFECHILD: $16,000 · Crime & LegalFORWARD JUSTICE: $5,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICEMATTERS INC: $4,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$283,870International$100,500Human Services$75,015Health$65,007Education$55,150Youth Development$47,500Crime & Legal$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget33 SPINEALIGN INC: $50,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $39,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $30,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEARSTONE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $17,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSAFECHILD: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $11,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSWINGPALS INC: $11,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSuNica Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDESIGN FC INC: $8,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSE RALEIGH PROMISE INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE TRAVIS CRISIS MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW LEAF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORWARD JUSTICE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHope Foundation of Iranian-American Jewish Communities: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREAD AND FEED: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTheGifted Arts Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICEMATTERS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARYING PLACE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 3y, 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.

Triangle Community Fo…North Carolina Commun…United Way of the Gre…John William Pope Fou…Duke Energy FoundationCarolina Hurricanes F…Aj Fletcher FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…Bell Schaefer Family …Crossroads Fellowship…W Trent Ragland Jr Fo…Calvin and Kelly Cart…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC47.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Calvin and Kelly Carter Family 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 Mistler Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mistler Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 117 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 2024, released 2024. 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