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· Private foundation
THE MICHAEL CONNELL CHARITABLE
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$950
Granted FY2025
3
Grants
1
Communities
$400
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of THE MICHAEL CONNELL CHARITABLE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
donations
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$300
Median grant
1
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
- MIRACLE FLIGHTS$400
- CLARK & PIKE PLLC$300
- PAWS LV$250
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13k · 10 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
8
Total granted
$13k
$2k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
-7%
+165%
Still filing today
40%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionHealthOther
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
- MFMIRACLE FLIGHTS7× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue -32%
- MAMAKE A WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA5× · 2020–2024 · $2k
- TSTHE SHADE TREE4× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- HOHELP OF SO NVone grant, 2018 · $400
- HFHOPE FOR PRISONERSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $400 · revenue +165%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SO NVone grant, 2018 · $300
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Help of Southern Nevada
Help of southern nevada (organization) is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to assist families and individuals throughout southern nevada to overcome barriers and attain self-sufficiency through direct services, training and…
Human Services
2
Society for the Prevention of
An innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless cats and dogs.
Unclassified
3
Lawrence Humane Society
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care, and advocacy to homeless and abused animals, as well as resources for the people and pets in the douglas county, kansas community.
Animals
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Nevada Society for the Prevention
Nevada spca saves the lives of southern nevada's most vulnerable pets, inspires human companions to uphold the best possible care and increases the human-animal bond through adoption, foster and preventative care.
Animals
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Safe House Inc
S.a.f.e. house provides a comprehensive approach to end domestic violence that includes crisis intervention, safe shelter, counseling, advocacy, housing, and community education.
Human Services
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Project Return Inc
People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…
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Womens Resource Medical Centers
Women's resource medical centers of southern nevada exists to save the lives of unborn children by sharing the love of jesus christ through spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational support to our clients.
Health
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Dallas Leadership Foundation
To identify, affirm, and develop leaders to transform communities.
Public Benefit
9
Hope Services Hawaii Inc
Hope services hawaii brings life to gospel values of justice, love, compassion, and hope through service, empowerment and advocacy.
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Healthy Nevada
Health
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Hope House Inc
Break the cycle of domestic violence by providing safe refuge and supportive services
Human Services
12
Lost-N-Found Youth Inc
Lost-n-found youth is an atlanta, georgia based nonprofit (501c3) that exists to end homelessness for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (lgbtq) and all sexual minority youth.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shade Tree Inc and the most unlike its peers is Theta Phi Lambda Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$12,650Education$1,300Human Services$400Food & Nutrition$300Animals$200Health$200
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.
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.
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation THE MICHAEL CONNELL CHARITABLE 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.
2024
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- Lead Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE QUIET STORM FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 264583526 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE QUIET STORM FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Michael Connell Charitable?
Find your warmest path to The Michael Connell Charitable through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines