· Private foundation
The J W and Sandra L Mitchell 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE J W AND SANDRA L MITCHELL FOUNDATION’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $318k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $709k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA TERESA | $150,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $110,000 |
| SHARE OURSELVES | $100,000 |
| CIRCLE 1000 HOAG FAMILY | $100,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $67,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF | $65,000 |
| SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES | $60,000 |
| MARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY | $57,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY ORANGE | $46,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $40,000 |
| CHARTER 100 INCORPORATED | $37,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $24,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $802k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +76% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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
- CTCASA TERESA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +49%
Share Our Selves Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $725k · revenue +63%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY2× · 2018–2022 · $655k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- MWMARIPOSA WOMEN FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2022 · $55k
- HSHEALTHY SMILES FOR KIDS OFone grant, 2023 · $23k
- SCSHRINERS CHILDRENS SOUTHERN CAone grant, 2022 · $22k
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 eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Asante physician partners is a multi-specialty provider group, with approximately 400 providers, that is headquartered in medford, oregon, and has 25 clinic locations in southern oregon. asante physician partners was established for the…
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 47 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 CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR POTENTIAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELI HOME INC ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Orange County's United Way · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The J W and Sandra L Mitchell 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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