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Mitz Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Mitz Family Charitable 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.

$235k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$620kYouth Development$150kPhilanthropy$86kInternational$25kAnimals$10kEducation$10kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION$50,000
CONQUER PARALYSIS NOW$50,000
4SHAYJ FOUNDATION$35,000
THE TIM & JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION$30,000
RAD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$30,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$15,000
HEART WARRIOR ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP$10,000
THE ROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION$10,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL$5,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PREVENTING UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES IN AFRICA: $20k → 9%THE TIM & JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%RAD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%4SHAYJ FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%ALLICANCE FOR GREATER WORKS: $5k → 14%HEART WARRIOR ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP: $10k → 9%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $15k → 17%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $30k → 13%ANDSON: $15k → 13%THE TIM & JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%RAD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%4SHAYJ FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $15k → 17%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $30k → 13%ANDSON: $10k → 13%THE TIM & JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%RAD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%4SHAYJ FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $26k → 13%CONQUER PARALYSIS NOW: $50k → 13%THE TIM & JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%4SHAYJ FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%CONQUER PARALYSIS NOW: $50k → 13%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $5k → 10%THE ROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%HARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CONQUER PARALYSIS NOW: $35k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE NORTH BAY: $10k → 10%THE ROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%HARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CONQUER PARALYSIS NOW: $25k → 13%THE ROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%THE ROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Mitz Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Mitz Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$841k · 9 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against +75% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$841k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%
+75%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • HR
    HARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $145k · revenue +68%
  • 4F
    4SHAYJ FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +281% · 83% of their budget
  • TA
    TIM AND JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • PU
    PREVENTING UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES IN AFRICA
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • RC
    RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -69%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE NORTH BAYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +75%
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
Rady Children's Hospital Research Center

The institute seeks to: translate research findings into new clinical tests and treatments to improve patient outcomes, enhance the knowledge in this field among current and future healthcare providers, and generate and share data and…

Health
2
Hsu Family Charitable Fund Inc

The mission of the hsu family charitable fund for brain cancer research is to raise the awareness and funding for brain cancer research, ultimately enabling new treatment options.

Human Services
3
Children's Heart Foundation

To raise funds to advance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of congential heart defects.

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4
Robert M Hoffman Foundation for Cancer Research
Health
5
Fore Hadley Foundation

The fore hadley foundation was created to drive awareness and generate funding for families and children affected by congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh). cdh is a rare birth defect that effects roughly 1 in every 2,500 live births per…

Philanthropy
6
The H Foundation

The h foundation was established to raise funds for basic science cancer research, supporting the early, novel ideas that may lead research teams to obtain additional grants and advancements in the fight against cancer.

Health
7
The Childrens Cancer Foundation Inc

The Childrens Cancer Foundation, Inc. (Organization) is a charitable, not-for-profit corporation committed to funding locally-based researchers, programs and facilities until every child is assured a healthy cancer free future. The…

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8
The Congenital Heart Foundation

The organization's mission is to promote, benefit and support, directly or indirectly, by gift, donation, grant, loan or otherwise, the interests and purposes of st. joseph's hospital and medical center's congenital heart program and…

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9
Children's Cancer Family Foundation of Ne Wi Inc

Raise money to support families and children suffering from childhood cancer.

Health
10
Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation Inc

Accelerate and increase impact of scientific discoveries within cancer biology and oncology.

Health
11
Cjr Memorial Foundation

The purpose of this trust is to aid parents for expenses incurred for lengthy visitations with their children that are suffering from serious illness and are hospitalized.

Philanthropy
12
The Joel Cornette Foundation Inc

To provide research funding to study, predict and prevent sudden cardiac arrest among athletes.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tim and Jeannie Hamann Foundation; the most unlike its peers is 4SHAYJ Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONQUER PARALYSIS NOW: $160,000 · OtherCONQUER PARALYSIS NOWRAD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherRAD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDAT…PREVENTING UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES IN AFRICA: $20,000 · OtherPREVENTING UNPLANNED PREGNANCIE…+2 more: $10,000 · OtherTIM AND JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION: $105,000 · PhilanthropyTIM AND JEANNIE HAMANN FO…NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $86,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDA…RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $15,000 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL …4SHAYJ FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Youth Development4SHAYJ FOUNDATIONAndson Inc: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentAndson IncHARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $145,000 · Arts & CultureHARMON RECOVERY FO…ROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Public BenefitROLF BENIR…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 · HealthHEART WARRIOR ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP INC: $10,000 · EducationHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE NORTH BAY: $10,000 · Animals
Other$255,000Philanthropy$206,000Youth Development$150,000Arts & Culture$145,000Public Benefit$80,000Health$50,000Education$10,000Animals$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 4y, 23% of budget4SHAYJ FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetTIM AND JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $86,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAndson Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART WARRIOR ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE NORTH BAY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Mitz Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mitz Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 15 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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