· Private foundation
The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of THE ELM FOUNDATION INC CO EARL L MIELKE JR’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $790
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
- $250k+1 grant · $489k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EARL L & MILDRED K MIELKE CHARITABLE FD | $489,322 |
| EARL L MILDRED K MIELKE CHARITABLE | $61,214 |
| LOUISA COUNTY RESOURCE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| MT PLEASANT UMC | $250 |
| FIT 2 B KIDS | $200 |
| ACE ADULT COMMUNITY EDUCATION | $140 |
| DAUGHTERS FOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $100 |
| BELMONT RURITAN CLUB | $100 |
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 (FY24–24, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +33% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $551k 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
- LCLouisa County Resource Council of Louisa Virginia9× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +83%
- LDLouisa Downtown Development Corpora7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +6%
- LALAKE ANNA CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- MPMT PLEASANT UNI METHODIST CHUone grant, 2017 · $13k
- THTHE HPV AND ANAL CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -66%
- FCFAMILY CARE MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
LLCs mission is to provide adults with essential reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in English, enabling them to pursue a broader selection of job opportunities, further their education, and engage more fully and fairly in…
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Roanoke College develops students as whole persons and prepares them for responsible lives of learning, service, and leadership by promoting their intellectual, ethical, spiritual and personal growth.
The mission of laurel ridge community college is to provide a positive, caring and dynamic learning environment that inspires student success, values diversity and promotes community vitality. in support of that mission, the laurel ridge…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
The Historical Society provides information to the public concerning the historical events in the area. The Society also helps with the restoration of historical
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
The mission of the organization is to provide adults with opportunities to improve basic skills.
Discover, Conserve, Interpret and disseminate knowledge of Loudouns Culture and History.
To provide a solid liberal arts and christian education program to all students
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Fit 2 B Kids Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 40 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 Louisa County Resource Council of Louisa Virginia ↗
- Who funds THE HPV AND ANAL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Louisa Downtown Development Corpora ↗
- Who funds LAKE ANNA CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Louisa County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Fit 2 B Kids Corp ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Belmont Ruritan Club ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LOUISA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr 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.