California · Private foundation
The John C Mithun 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.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $505,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $84M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The John C Mithun Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $3.3M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $2.9M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $2.3M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $2.6M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $2.1M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $1.9M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $1.3M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $1.2M | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $1,285,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Opera Santa Barbara | $667,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Music Academy of the West | $635,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics | $615,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara | $590,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara International Film Festival Inc | $546,591 | 9 | 2% |
| The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County | $445,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Food From the Heart Inc | $385,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $375,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Girls Incorporated of Carpinteria | $375,000 | 6 | 8% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The John C Mithun Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Mithun Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · James S Bower Foundation
How this is measured
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About The John C Mithun Foundation
- How much does The John C Mithun Foundation give?
- The John C Mithun Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $3,331,922 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The John C Mithun Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (26%), Health (10%).
- Who are The John C Mithun Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Uc Santa Barbara Foundation ($1.3M), Opera Santa Barbara ($667k), Music Academy of the West ($635k).
- Does The John C Mithun Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The John C Mithun 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 The John C Mithun Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Williams-Corbett Foundation.
- Where is The John C Mithun Foundation based?
- The John C Mithun Foundation is based in CA.
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