How much does Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation give?

Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $234,542 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Arts & Culture (12%), Religion (10%).

Who are Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($227k), Central Synagogue ($144k), Manhattan Class Company Inc ($138k).

Does Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Shelly & Neil Mitchell 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 Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation based?

Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation is based in NJ.

Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation

Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Shelly & Neil Mitchell 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.

$235k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$41k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$486kArts & Culture$183kReligion$152kInternational$120kEducation$104kRecreation & Sports$75kHousing & Shelter$74kHealth$69kOther$0

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $29k
$10k–50k9 grants · $206k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$149k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UJA Federation of NY	$41,000
Elluminate	$38,000
Project Renewal	$30,000
I Have A Dream Foundation- NY	$24,417
MCC Theater	$22,250
PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc	$20,000
City Meals on Wheels	$10,000
Joe DiMaggio Childrens Hospital Foundation	$10,000
Folds of Honor	$10,000
New York REP	$5,000
Israel Tennis Centers	$5,000
The 92nd Street Y Nursery School Benefit	$5,000
Student Sponsor Partners	$5,000
Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp	$3,875
FamilyKind	$2,500

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 20 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+37%

Still filing today

60%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

UJ
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +39%
MC
MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +23%
PR
PROJECT RENEWAL INC
3× · 2020–2025 · $74k · revenue +27%

Funded once

MS
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +37%
JF
Jewish Federation of MetroWest NJ
one grant, 2018 · $10k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $10k

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.

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture

The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is Matthew Friedman Memorial Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

22/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$774,142Philanthropy$355,000Arts & Culture$170,750Health$118,785Education$102,300Human Services$55,000Youth Development$12,500

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shelly & Neil Mitchell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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