· Private foundation
Mizel Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $30,000 |
| GOLDEN GATE LEARNING FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE KERN PROJECT | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| NAMI WALKS MARIN COUNTY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +12%
- TKTHE KERN PROJECT8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +165%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- ELEnriching Lives Through Musicgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue ×12
- TJTHE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +65%
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +32%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Enriching Lives Through Music ↗
- Who funds THE KERN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Mission High Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mizel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mizel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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