· Private foundation
The Mike & Susan Charity 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE MIKE & SUSAN CHARITY 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMAZING TAIWAN | $2,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $1,053 |
| MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY | $515 |
| KQED | $258 |
| CFRI | $250 |
| CHRISTOPHER DANA REEVE FOUNDATION | $208 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVATORY | $206 |
| EDPOWERMENT THE WAKA WAKA PROJECT | $200 |
| PJCC | $188 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $105 |
| STAND UP TO CANCER | $55 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +22% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 51% 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
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED3× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +121%- KIKQED INC7× · 2018–2025 · $1k · revenue +22%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2020 · $800 · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- AAASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -68%
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $605 · revenue -18%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 43 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CUPERTINO CHINESE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY AIDS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Mike & Susan Charity 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.
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.