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The Mikhail Family 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.

$204k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

International$331kHuman Services$302kReligion$294kHealth$19kPublic Benefit$18kEducation$15kArts & Culture$10kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mission to the World$81,750
Millidon Foundation$37,522
Providing Possibilities Fdn$30,000
Lakeside Christian Church$15,600
Our Common Foundation$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Net Research Foundation$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
St John Coptic Orthodox Church$3,000
Matthew 25 Ministries$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
City Gospel Mission$1,000
Vestwell$1,000
Faces of Hope$1,000
Univ NC Chapel Hill$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Discovery Cares Inc: $50k → 11%Unbound: $518 → 16%Unbound: $500 → 16%Point Global: $30k → 5%Unbound: $500 → 16%Point Global: $30k → 5%BeConcerned: $100 → 11%Unbound: $500 → 16%Unbound: $500 → 16%Unbound: $500 → 16%Unbound: $492 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$735k · 22 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
33

Total granted

$735k
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CO
    COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $18k · revenue +113%
  • M2
    Matthew 25 Ministries Inc
    5× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +21%
  • U
    Unbound
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Hope Association
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -25% · 26% of their budget
  • DC
    DISCOVERY CARES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $18k

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.

1
Baptist Center for Global Concerns

The center shares christ's peace by embracing and addressing the world's weighty concerns through feeding, educating, and caring for those who hunger for change.

Human Services
2
Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
3
God's Pantry Food Bank Inc

The mission of god's pantry food bank is reducing hunger by working together to feed kentucky communities. god's pantry food bank envisions a nourished life for every kentuckian.

4
City Mission Society Inc

See schedule o description of our mission and vision.

Human Services
5
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

6
Life As Mission
Unclassified
7
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
8
Mission of Mercy
9
Medical Missions Outreach Inc

In 2005, medical missions outreach began pointing others to the great physician through an annual medical missions trip to the developing world by partnering with local churches to reach their communities with the gospel. now more than 20…

International
10
Mission Mutual

Equipping mission, ministry, and philanthropic organizations (of similar vision) with the organizational and relational perspective needed to accelerate and enhance their collective impact. mission mutual exists to provide centralized…

International
11
Eyewitness Missions
Philanthropy
12
Message to All Nations Man

To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifesong for Orphans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Point Global. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHomeless Services & ShelterFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Pantries & AssistanceChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%13%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%67%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,532

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mission to the World — $402,818 · OtherMission to the WorldPROVIDING POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION — $85,000 · OtherPROVIDING POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAKESIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC — $46,800 · OtherLAKESIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INCMillidon Foundation — $37,522 · OtherLakeside Christian Church — $31,200 · Other+41 more — $87,942 · Other+41 morePoint Global — $60,000 · Human ServicesPoint GlobalDISCOVERY CARES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesDISCOVERY CA…+2 more — $3,610 · Human ServicesThe Hope Association — $100,000 · ReligionThe Hope Ass…+4 more — $6,810 · Religion+4 moreCOPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION — $17,994 · InternationalMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $5,000 · InternationalLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC — $5,000 · InternationalRIDE CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $515 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION — $500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $300 · HealthTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION — $250 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY — $700 · EducationOHIO VALLEY VOICES — $127 · EducationFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $100 · Food & NutritionGO PANTRY CORPORATION — $100 · Food & NutritionBAWAC INC — $100 · Employment
Other$751,282Human Services$113,610Religion$106,810International$27,994Health$1,565Education$827Food & Nutrition$200Employment$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Hope Association — $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPoint Global — $60,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetDISCOVERY CARES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCOPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION — $17,994 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound — $3,510 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMISSIONS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $3,360 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASTER PROVISIONS INC — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACTION MINISTRIES INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARY ROSE MISSION — $1,450 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWORTHINGTON AM ROTARY — $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDE CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO VALLEY VOICES — $127 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBE CONCERNED INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAWAC INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGO PANTRY CORPORATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW PERCEPTIONS INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 The Hope Association
  • Who funds Point Global
  • Who funds DISCOVERY CARES INC
  • Who funds COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc
  • Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
  • Who funds Unbound
  • Who funds MISSIONS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES
  • Who funds MASTER PROVISIONS INC
  • Who funds ACTION MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds MARY ROSE MISSION
  • Who funds WORTHINGTON AM ROTARY

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 Butler FoundationKY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Butler Foundation · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Celanese Foundation · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 · St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Duke Energy 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 Mikhail Family 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Mikhail Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Mikhail Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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