· Private foundation
The Mitchell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $942k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE | $1,100,000 |
| THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| BILL GLASS BEHIND THE WALLS | $219,800 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL REL | $165,000 |
| TEXAS BUSINESS HALL OF FAME FOUNDAT | $120,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $100,000 |
| MD ANDERSON FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND LLC | $100,000 |
| DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION | $87,000 |
| KICKSTART KIDS | $50,000 |
| RREACH | $45,000 |
| TEXAS AM FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $30,000 |
| EMANCIPET | $25,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k 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
- TFTHE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +226%
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +637%
- DBDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TPTURNING POINT USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $600k · revenue ×14
- EPE3 Partners Ministryone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +8%
- MAMUSEUMS AT MITCHELgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +39%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life and the most unlike its peers is Ellies Potbellies. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
66 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. 66 of the 90 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 THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds Ennis Public Theatre ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Urban Alternative ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds LIFEMARK MINISTRIES DBA NEXT STEP ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds Kick Drugs Out of America Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSEUMS AT MITCHEL ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MD Anderson Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds 4ATX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Helping a HeroOrg ↗
- Who funds EMANCIPET INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · The Rosewood Foundation · Dallas Seminary Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc
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 Mitchell 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.