How much does Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation give?

Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $142,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (61%), Health (8%), Social Science (6%).

Who are Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc ($128k), Greenpeace Fund Inc ($90k), Ocean Conservancy ($80k).

Does Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clark-Winchcole Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation.

Where is Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation based?

Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation is based in VA.

Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation

Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$143k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$895kHealth$122kSocial Science$82kAnimals$52kHuman Services$40kScience & Tech$25kPhilanthropy$25kInternational$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $3k
$10k–50k4 grants · $65k
$50k–250k1 grant · $75k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$897k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S	$75,000
Individual grant recipient	$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE INC	$20,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION	$15,000
GREENPEACE FUND	$10,000
JDRF	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 37 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+4%

Still filing today

70%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationInternationalOther

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

CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +53%
GREENPEACE FUND INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +31%
OC
OCEAN CONSERVANCY
8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +97%

Funded once

BJ
BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +6%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
U2
UNITED 24
one grant, 2022 · $8k

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment

Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment

Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals

New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment

For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Earth; the most unlike its peers is Bender Jcc of Greater Washington. 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

47 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. 47 of the 73 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/47

Grantees still filing

33/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$675,628Environment$597,725Animals$67,000Human Services$48,531Health$26,500Science & Tech$25,000International$15,000

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

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.

Clark-Winchcole FoundationMD13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mitchell & Kathy Racoosin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

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