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Mize 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN'S AGRI-ENVIRO VISION | $20,000 |
| AKASHINGA INC | $20,000 |
| SAMBURU WOMEN TRUST | $20,000 |
| BOMA | $20,000 |
| URGENT ACTION FUND FOR WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS | $20,000 |
| THOUSAND CURRENTS | $20,000 |
| CHISHOLM LEGACY PROJECT INC | $20,000 |
| WOMEN FUND TANZANIA TRUST | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| AGROECOLOGY FUND AFRICA | $20,000 |
| WOMIN AFRICAN ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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 US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($1.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($270k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 44% 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
Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($270k)
6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Mize Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- UAURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +311%
- TCTHOUSAND CURRENTS8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +378%
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE6× · 2017–2022 · $140k · revenue +277%
Funded once
- UNUNDOCUBLACK NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +333%
- KPKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +67%
THE PRAXIS PROJECT INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -23%
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.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
IWWG empowers women writers with workshops events and community gatherings to encourage writing speaking and publishing
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We cultivate the research, narratives, practices, and connections that transform our cultural landscape toward collective liberation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thousand Currents and the most unlike its peers is Global Press Institute. 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 19 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 45 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 URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
- Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds Global Press Institute ↗
- Who funds FRONT LINE USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Na'ah Illahee Fund ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Latino Community Fund of Washington State ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD ↗
- Who funds Front and Centered ↗
- Who funds THE CHISHOLM LEGACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PEOPLES FUND ↗
- Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds UNDOCUBLACK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Center for Diversity and the Environment ↗
- Who funds International Rivers Network ↗
- Who funds INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · United Philanthropy Forum · Laird Norton Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Doll Family Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation
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 Mize 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.
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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