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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k57 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $683k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $374,000 |
| THE LIVING DESERT | $309,000 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST DRIGGS IDAHO | $225,000 |
| HAMMER RESIDENCES INC | $210,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $150,000 |
| HEART OF THE ROCKIES INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| SAGEBRUSH STEPPE LAND TRUST OF POCATELLO IDAHO | $100,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC | $70,000 |
| BLAKE SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $55,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| LAND TRUST OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $559k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PAPROVIDENCE ACADEMY5× · 2018–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
- HRHammer Residences Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $878k · revenue +57%
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $690k · revenue +315%
Funded once
- TLThe Lift Garagegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $311k · revenue +95%
COMMONBOND COMMUNITIESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +74%- TSTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
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The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Moxie Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 197 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Hammer Residences Inc ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE ROCKIES INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mithun Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- The Danbury Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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