Maryland · Private foundation
The Mitchell P Rales Family 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.
- $285k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $471k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $275k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.8M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $547k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $3.2M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $1.4M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwood School Inc | $5,810,868 | 5 | 13% |
| Mount Desert 365 | $1,209,656 | 1 | 44% |
| Miami University Foundation | $595,852 | 2 | 0% |
| The Washington Commanders Charitable Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc | $100,357 | 1 | 0% |
| Mount Desert Island Hospital | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc | $67,500 | 6 | 7% |
| New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Acadia | $59,885 | 2 | 1% |
| Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve | $50,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($443k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Florence V Burden Foundation · The Eacho Family Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) · Ethel D Colket Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Nautilus Foundation Inc · Newtmont Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation
- How much does The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation give?
- The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $285,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (76%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Environment (4%).
- Who are The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Norwood School Inc ($5.8M), Mount Desert 365 ($1.2M), Miami University Foundation ($596k).
- Does The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Florence V Burden Foundation, The Eacho Family Foundation.
- Where is The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation based?
- The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation is based in MD.
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