Skip to content
The Mitchell Daughters Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Mitchell Daughters 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.

$146k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$144kHealth$128kYouth Development$91kHuman Services$80kEducation$75kArts & Culture$5kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Cincinnati$60,000
1N5$25,000
Hope Emergency Program$25,000
Cradle Cincinnati$25,000
Karen Wellington Foundation$6,000
Christ Hospital Health Services$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Hope Emergency Program: $25k → 15%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $80k → 16%PREGENCY CENTER EAST: $20k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $5k → 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.
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$346k · 7 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$346k
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+57%

Still filing today

29%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalEducationOther
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

  • UO
    University of Cincinnati
    5× · 2021–2025 · $70k
  • 1
    1N5
    5× · 2021–2025 · $59k
  • PA
    PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $57k · revenue -52%

Funded once

  • LY
    LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue +15%
  • SH
    Sam Hubbard Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue 0%
  • PC
    PREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INCgraduated
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +61%
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
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc

Mother Hubbard's Cupboard serves the hungry in the Wilmington area through distribution of emergency food. This service is provided without discrimination by volunteers in collarboration with community organizations and businesses with…

—
2
The Center for Women and Families Inc

To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.

Human Services
3
Hope Abounds Inc

The mission of Hope Abounds is to provide compassionate, no-cost support, resources, and education to cancer patients, their families, and caregivers. By empowering individuals through advocacy, collaboration, and tailored assistance, they…

Human Services
4
Lifehouse Inc

Lifehouse, inc. provides for the spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual needs of pregnant and/or parenting teens and women and their children, both born and unborn.

Housing & Shelter
5
People Help Exchange Inc

Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Women's Lunch Place Inc

Women's lunch place (wlp) inspires hope and supports the development of self-sustaining skills for women experiencing hunger, homelessness, and poverty. we create a safe, welcoming day shelter community in which we respect the dignity of…

—
7
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc

Founded in 1989 to provide prenatal care for lowincome and homeless women, HPP has evolved into a dynamic family resource center with a holistic model that integrates a wide array of services to address the specific needs of each client…

Health
8
Chicago Hope Inc

Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.

Human Services
9
Mission Share Inc

Provide food, clothing, home repair, and counseling.

Human Services
10
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers

Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…

Health
11
Carolina Pregnancy Center Inc

The Carolina Pregnancy Center is a nonprofit ministry serving women, and their families, who are seeking help in making decisions about their pregnancy and well-being. Services include: Counseling, continuing emotional support, referrals…

Health
12
The Samaritan Center Inc

To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Emergency Program; the most unlike its peers is Nest Community Learning Center. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Cincinnati: $70,401 · OtherUniversity of Cincinnati1N5: $59,000 · Other1N5CRADLE CINCINNATI: $55,000 · OtherCRADLE CINCINNATIRONALD MCDONALD: $55,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALDIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSecond Wind Programs Inc: $10,766 · Other+4 more: $20,000 · Other+4 moreLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $80,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICE…HOPE EMERGENCY PROGRAM: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOPE EMERGENCY PROGRAMPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS IN…NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $5,000 · Human ServicesPATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $57,000 · EducationPATIENT AD…Sam Hubbard Foundation: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentLA SOUPE INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionNEST COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $15,000 · Food & NutritionBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthThe Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation: $6,000 · HealthTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $4,000 · International
Other$295,167Human Services$130,000Education$57,000Youth Development$45,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Health$16,000Arts & Culture$5,000International$4,000

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 budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $80,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $57,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSam Hubbard Foundation: $45,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHOPE EMERGENCY PROGRAM: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNEST COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSecond Wind Programs Inc: $10,766 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 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 LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sam Hubbard Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE EMERGENCY PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEST COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Second Wind Programs Inc ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗

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 Greater Cincinnat…Johnson Charitable Gi…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Mitchell Daughters Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mitchell Daughters Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Mitchell Daughters’ filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home