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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Univ NC Chapel Hill$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
City Gospel Mission$1,000
Vestwell$1,000
Faces of Hope$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

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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.

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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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifesong for Orphans Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationGO PANTRY CORPORATION: $100 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $100 · Food & NutritionBAWAC INC: $100 · Employment
Other$751,282Human Services$113,610Religion$106,810International$27,994Health$1,565Education$827Food & Nutrition$200Employment$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $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 budgetBAWAC INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGO PANTRY CORPORATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW PERCEPTIONS INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mikhail Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mikhail Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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