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Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$65k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
58%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$64k9%
FY202312$69k58%
FY20225$35kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$84kEducation$30kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$2kAnimals$2kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Polytechnic School$30,00030%
Descanso Gardens Foundation$20,00030%
The Mono Lake Foundation$15,00030%
Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation Inc$15,00020%
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden$15,00020%
Lassen Park Foundation$15,00036%
Altadena Community Garden$10,0001n/a
National Wildlife Federation$2,00020%
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles$2,00020%
Sierra Club$2,00020%
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All grantees of Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Polytechnic School$30,00030%
Descanso Gardens Foundation$20,00030%
The Mono Lake Foundation$15,00030%
Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation Inc$15,00020%
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden$15,00020%
Lassen Park Foundation$15,00036%
Altadena Community Garden$10,0001n/a
National Wildlife Federation$2,00020%
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles$2,00020%
Sierra Club$2,00020%
Arts for LA$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($41k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPolytechnic School: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDescanso Gardens Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mono Lake Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Arboretum Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLassen Park Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArts for LA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

California Community FoundationCA18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science

How much does Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science give?
Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science reported 12 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (49%), Education (18%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
Who are Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Polytechnic School ($30k), Descanso Gardens Foundation ($20k), The Mono Lake Foundation ($15k).
Does Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
Where is Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science based?
Mitchell Foundation for Nature Art & Science is based in CA.

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 14 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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