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The Mitchell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$8.1MReligion$4.1MPublic Benefit$1.9MHealth$1.2MCivil Rights$735kArts & Culture$665kHuman Services$665kPublic Safety & Disaster$525kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $942k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MD ANDERSON FOUNDATION$100,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$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
MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $15k → 5%ABUNDANT LIFE PREGNANCY RESOURCE: $10k → 13%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $9k → 10%VARIETY- THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF T: $175k → 10%VARIETY- THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF T: $125k → 10%SCHOOL FU EL: $20k → 10%VARIETY- THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF T: $100k → 10%VARIETY- THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF T: $25k → 10%DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION: $95k → 14%DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION: $90k → 14%DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION: $87k → 14%DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION: $55k → 14%DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION: $49k → 14%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
SD
IA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 41 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
37

Total granted

$17M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+12%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationReligionHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TF
    THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +226%
  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +637%
  • DB
    DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $600k · revenue ×14
  • EP
    E3 Partners Ministry
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +8%
  • OC
    OAK CLIFF BIBLE FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
3
Texas Tribune Inc

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…

Education
4
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
5
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
6
Uatx

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,…

Education
7
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
8
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
9
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

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.

Education
10
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
11
Evangel University

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.

Education
12
Texas Medical Association

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life; 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.
04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 90 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/66
Grantees still filing
43/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC: $3,250,000 · EducationTHE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INCPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,650,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $1,500,000 · EducationDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITYConservative Partnership Institute: $1,250,000 · EducationConservative Partnership InstituteDallas Theological Seminary: $550,000 · EducationDallas Theological Seminary+4 more: $170,000 · EducationTEXAS BUSINESS HALL OF FAME FOUNDAT: $985,000 · OtherTEXAS BUSINESS HALL OF FAME FOUNDA…CENTER FOR STUDY OF NEW TESTATMENT: $600,000 · OtherCENTER FOR STUDY OF NEW TESTATMENTTURNING POINT USA INC: $600,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL REL: $525,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL RE…THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION…BILL GLASS BEHIND THE WALLS: $219,800 · OtherMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $200,000 · Other+55 more: $2,322,554 · Other+55 moreRAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH: $661,168 · ReligionRAMESH RICHAR…E3 Partners Ministry: $500,000 · ReligionE3 Partners M…The Urban Alternative: $464,000 · ReligionThe Urban Alt…BIBLEPROJECT: $300,000 · ReligionBIBLEPROJECTLIFEMARK MINISTRIES DBA NEXT STEP: $300,000 · ReligionLIFEMARK MINI…+2 more: $105,000 · ReligionDALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION INC: $600,605 · Human ServicesVARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF TEXAS: $425,000 · Human Services+4 more: $54,000 · Human ServicesFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $400,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $250,000 · Civil RightsEAST TEXAS CHILD ADVOCATES INC: $85,000 · Civil RightsEnnis Public Theatre: $525,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUMS AT MITCHEL: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND: $295,000 · International
Education$8,370,000Other$5,952,354Religion$2,330,168Human Services$1,079,605Civil Rights$735,000Arts & Culture$625,000International$295,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC: $3,250,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,650,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $1,500,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $1,250,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetRAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH: $661,168 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetDALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION INC: $600,605 over 8y, 31% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $600,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $550,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetEnnis Public Theatre: $525,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetE3 Partners Ministry: $500,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Urban Alternative: $464,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF TEXAS: $425,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $400,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT: $300,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIFEMARK MINISTRIES DBA NEXT STEP: $300,000 over 4y, 75% of budgetCELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND: $295,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKick Drugs Out of America Foundation: $115,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUMS AT MITCHEL: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMD Anderson Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $85,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetEAST TEXAS CHILD ADVOCATES INC: $85,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budget4ATX FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetEMANCIPET INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHelping a HeroOrg: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFor Girls Like You Ministries: $55,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetMENTORING ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMIKE MCCOY MINISTRIES: $50,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIVE LIKE ROO FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHING FARM RESCUE AND SANCTUARY: $31,554 over 1y, 20% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MENOPAUSE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 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 HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUMS AT MITCHEL ↗
  • Who funds MD Anderson Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 EMANCIPET INC ↗
  • Who funds Helping a HeroOrg ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationChristian Community F…Community Foundation …Texas Instruments Fou…The Signatry Charitab…Servant FoundationThe Rosewood Foundati…Dallas Seminary Found…East Texas Communitie…Dallas Jewish Communi…Austin Community Foun…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX30.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 90 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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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