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Mithun Family Foundation

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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
83
Grants FY2024
76
Organizations funded FY2023
12%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$374,000
Organizations funded a year
70 to 81
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
20
Total assets, FY2024
$56M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Mithun Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving81$3.3M26%
FY202376$2.9M12%
FY202281$3.2M21%
FY202179$3.0M41%
FY202070$2.6M27%
FY201978$2.8M29%
FY201873$2.9Mn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$4.8MEnvironment$4.1MHealth$3.7MHuman Services$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.2MReligion$1.0MPhilanthropy$715kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 135 grantees
All grantees of Mithun Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Providence Academy$1,015,60053%
Hammer Residences Inc$877,50071%
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation$690,00060%
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara$600,00071%
Heart of the Rockies Initiative$600,000720%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$567,80071%
Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation$500,00023%
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics$415,00071%
The Blake School$398,00070%
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County$365,00042%
Homefront Inc$361,012713%
Land Trust Alliance Inc$350,00061%
Teton Literacy Center$350,00067%
Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc$336,39370%
The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc$336,21772%
The Lift Garage$310,515124%
Living Desert The$309,00011%
Music Academy of the West$300,00041%
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc$280,00070%
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation$260,00049%
Community Foundation of Teton Valley Inc$250,0005n/a
Commonbond Communities$250,00011%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts$235,00070%
Dunwoody College of Technology$220,00031%
Wayzata Community Church$204,0004n/a
Santa Barbara Education Foundation$185,00062%
Unity Shoppe Inc$170,00071%
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners$169,50071%
Jackson Hole Land Trust$150,00021%
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association$150,00032%
Boca Raton Museum of Art$115,00051%
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden$112,50061%
Florence Fuller Child Development Centers Inc$110,00070%
Salvation Army$109,9855n/a
Guthrie Theater Foundation$109,00070%
Madeline Island Historical Preservation Association Inc$102,0002n/a
Teton Science Schools Inc$100,00011%
Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation$100,00052%
Trailblazer Foundation$100,000219%
Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara$90,00013%
Minnetonka Center for the Arts$85,00062%
826 Msp$80,0002n/a
Boca Grande Woman's Club Inc$75,000110%
Sansum Clinic$65,00070%
Friends of the Goleta Valley Librar$60,00078%
University of Minnesota Foundation$60,00030%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$58,00060%
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History$55,00013%
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum$50,00032%
The Family Partnership$50,00010%
Animal Humane Society$50,00040%
Food From the Heart Inc$50,00033%
Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara$50,00050%
Keystone Community Services$50,00010%
Park Nicollet Foundation$50,00011%
Camp Timberline$50,00021%
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History$50,00030%
St John's Health Foundation$50,00011%
Vna Health Foundation$45,00030%
Prager University Foundation$40,00030%
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc$40,00042%
American Cancer Society Inc$36,00040%
Velie Real Estate Foundation$35,000255%
Latin American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc$30,72243%
Roots and Wings$30,00031%
Center of the American Experiment$30,00020%
Hold Your Horses$30,00032%
Turning Point USA Inc$30,00020%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$30,00020%
Young America's Foundation$28,30030%
Lake Minnetonka Sailing School Inc$25,33316%
Operation Red Wings Foundation$25,00011%
Every Meal$25,00010%
Bennett Family Park Inc$25,000112%
Community Environmental Council$25,00011%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North$25,00020%
Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us$25,00040%
The Taft School Corporation$21,00020%
Samaritan's Purse$20,00010%
Girls Incorporated of Carpinteria$20,00011%
Innercity Tennis Foundation$20,00020%
Jamison and Kathryne Pals Family Foundation$20,000218%
Friends of Boca Grande Community Center Inc$18,31040%
Hope Academy Inc$17,50020%
Montecito Trails Foundation$17,00032%
City House$15,0001n/a
Project 412$15,00011%
Boca Raton Humane Society Foundation Inc$15,0001n/a
Milagro Foundation$15,00021%
The Danbury Hospital$14,30020%
Moxie Foundation$13,00031%
Second Harvest Heartland$12,50030%
Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation$11,66622%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$10,00010%
Benilde St Margarets High School$10,0002n/a
Gasparilla Isl Conser & Improve Assn$10,00010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$10,00010%
The Pilgrim Center for Reconciliation$10,00013%
Pinky Swear Foundation$10,00010%
Take Charge Minnesota$10,00011%
Colorado Association for Behavior Analysis$10,00015%
Organic Soup Kitchen$10,00012%
Little Wishes$10,00012%
The Glaucoma Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Wilderness Inquiry Inc$10,00010%
Thomas Irvine Dodge Nature Center$10,00010%
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota$10,00011%
Aim Higher Foundation$10,00010%
The Charlemagne Institute$10,00011%
Spirit of Giving Network Inc$10,00011%
Hanley Foundation$10,00010%
Gold Canyon Arts Council$10,00016%
Trinity Lutheran Church$10,0001n/a
YMCA Foundation of South Palm Beach County Inc$10,00010%
Walker Art Center$10,00010%
Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton Fund Inc$10,00022%
The Courage Center$10,00011%
Macphail Center for Music$10,00010%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$10,00010%
Anchor House Inc$6,30010%
Lake Minnetonka Association$5,20022%
People Serving People Inc$5,00010%
V3 Sports Inc$5,0001n/a
Tmt International Observatory LLC$5,00050%
Center for Successful Aging$5,00011%
Children's Cancer Research Fund$5,00010%
Wayzata Fire Department Relief Association$4,00011%
Royal Palm Players Inc$3,00021%
Strings Music Festival$3,00010%
Gateway Educational Services$2,50012%
Summit Academy Oic$2,00010%
Island Association Inc$1,7501n/a
Pet Rescue Center Inc$1,00011%
Madeline Island School of the Arts Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Spoon Foundation$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mithun Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 123 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProvidence Academy: $1,015,600 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHammer Residences Inc: $877,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUc Santa Barbara Foundation: $690,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetScholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara: $600,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetHeart of the Rockies Initiative: $600,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $567,800 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetAbbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Neighborhood Clinics: $415,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Blake School: $398,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Land Trust for Santa Barbara County: $365,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHomefront Inc: $361,012 over 7y, 13% of budgetLand Trust Alliance Inc: $350,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTeton Literacy Center: $350,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetRegional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc: $336,393 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc: $336,217 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetThe Lift Garage: $310,515 over 1y, 24% of budgetLiving Desert The: $309,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMusic Academy of the West: $300,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $280,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Barbara Public Library Foundation: $260,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetCommonbond Communities: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMinneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts: $235,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDunwoody College of Technology: $220,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $185,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetUnity Shoppe Inc: $170,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetInterfaith Outreach and Community Partners: $169,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetJackson Hole Land Trust: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSanta Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association: $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBoca Raton Museum of Art: $115,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Botanic Garden: $112,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFlorence Fuller Child Development Centers Inc: $110,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGuthrie Theater Foundation: $109,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTeton Science Schools Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBoca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation: $100,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTrailblazer Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara: $90,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMinnetonka Center for the Arts: $85,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetBoca Grande Woman's Club Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetSansum Clinic: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Goleta Valley Librar: $60,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSharing and Caring Hands Inc: $58,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCape Cod Museum of Natural History: $55,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Maritime Museum: $50,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood From the Heart Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCancer Foundation of Santa Barbara: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% 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 123.

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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 John C Mithun FoundationCA47.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John C Mithun Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Maggie Applauds Great Goals in Education 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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Find your warmest path to Mithun Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Mithun Family Foundation

How much does Mithun Family Foundation give?
Mithun Family Foundation reported 83 grants totaling $3,300,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Mithun Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Environment (19%), Health (17%).
Who are Mithun Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Providence Academy ($1.0M), Hammer Residences Inc ($878k), Uc Santa Barbara Foundation ($690k).
Does Mithun Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mithun Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mithun Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The John C Mithun Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation.
Where is Mithun Family Foundation based?
Mithun Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 197 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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