Texas · Private foundation
The Mitchell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $65M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Mitchell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 27 | $3.2M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $2.9M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $2.0M | 34% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $2.0M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $2.3M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $1.9M | 62% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $3.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Family Leader Foundation Inc | $3,250,000 | 5 | 23% |
| Prager University Foundation | $1,650,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Dallas Baptist University | $1,500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Conservative Partnership Institute | $1,250,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Ramesh Richard Evangelism and Church Health | $661,168 | 6 | 4% |
| Dallas Hearing Foundation Inc | $600,605 | 8 | 31% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $600,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Dallas Theological Seminary | $550,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ennis Public Theatre | $525,000 | 2 | 45% |
| E3 Partners Ministry | $500,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mitchell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Mitchell Foundation
- How much does The Mitchell Foundation give?
- The Mitchell Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $3,196,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Mitchell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Religion (21%), Public Benefit (10%).
- Who are The Mitchell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Family Leader Foundation Inc ($3.3M), Prager University Foundation ($1.6M), Dallas Baptist University ($1.5M).
- Does The Mitchell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mitchell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mitchell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Mitchell Foundation based?
- The Mitchell Foundation is based in TX.
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