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The John O Mitchell Family Charitable Trust
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: 65% of THE JOHN O MITCHELL FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST’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 $10k40 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MT VERNON PLACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $6,088 |
| MARYLAND BIBLE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| FUNERAL SERVICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF MARY OUR QUEEN | $5,000 |
| LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION | $3,500 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| R MADISON MITCHELL ENDOWMENT TRUST | $2,500 |
| STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BALTIMORE | $2,500 |
| HAVRE DE GRACE DECOY MUSEUM | $1,525 |
| GREATER RUXTON FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,500 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $1,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FSFUNERAL SERVICE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +5%
- MBMARYLAND BIBLE SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +22%
- LELAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- RCROTARY CLUB OF BALTIMOREone grant, 2022 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- JAJOHN ARMIGER SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.
The University System of Maryland Foundation, Inc promotes, galvanizes and supports the advancement of public higher education in Maryland through leadership and engagement in philanthropy, asset management, and stewardship. The Foundation…
The cfa society baltimore, inc. was founded in 1948. the cfa society baltimore, inc. was established to provide the financial community with information and knowledge, while advocating ethical conduct with regard to investments and…
Acquisition and maintenance of property of local fire fighters union
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The mission of baltimore community foundation is to inspire donors to achieve their charitable goals from generation to generation and to improve the quality of life in the baltimore region through grantmaking, enlightened civic leadership…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Baltimore Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is R Madison Mitchell Endowment Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 52 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 FUNERAL SERVICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds R Madison Mitchell Endowment Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAVRE DE GRACE DECOY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES 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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 John O Mitchell Family Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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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