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The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$6.6MHousing & Shelter$1.2MEnvironment$339kHealth$255kArts & Culture$138kReligion$89kYouth Development$15kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$471k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION BETH EL MONTGOMERY COUNTY MD$100,000
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
INSPIRE ACCESS$25,000
GREAT AND SMALL$15,000
MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS$10,000
WILLOWIND THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC$10,000
MT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL$10,000
FRIENDS OF ACADIA$10,000
PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND$10,000
THE VIVA SCHOOL OF DANCE$5,000
MT DESERT LAND & GARDEN PRESERVE$5,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$5,000
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY$5,000
MOUNT DESERT POLICE ASSOCIATION$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MERCY WAY ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 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

ME
VT
IL
NY
OH
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 25 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
21

Total granted

$7.2M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NS
    NORWOOD SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +34%
  • MU
    Miami University Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $596k · revenue +14%
  • MD
    MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL
    4× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • MD
    MOUNT DESERT 365
    one grant, 2024 · $1.2M · revenue -93% · 44% of their budget
  • MD
    MT DESERT 365
    one grant, 2021 · $206k
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue -97%
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
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
2
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
3
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
5
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
8
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
10
The Mariners' Museum

The mariners' museum and park connects people to the world's waters, because through the waters - through our shared maritime heritage - we are connected to one another.

Arts & Culture
11
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc

The mission of the chesapeake bay maritime museum cbmm is to preserve and explore the history, environment, and people of the chesapeake bay. the vision of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to be the premier see sched o

Arts & Culture
12
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Washington Commanders Charitable Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Gallery of Art. 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

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
27/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORWOOD SCHOOL INC: $5,810,868 · EducationNORWOOD SCHOOL INCMiami University Foundation: $595,852 · EducationMiami University Foundation+7 more: $172,839 · EducationMOUNT DESERT 365: $1,209,656 · Community ImprovementMOUNT DESERT 36…MT DESERT 365: $206,389 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH EL MONTGOMERY COUNTY MD: $184,000 · OtherMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $50,000 · OtherMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · OtherGREAT AND SMALL: $25,000 · Other+23 more: $126,600 · OtherMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $100,000 · HealthWillowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $67,500 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $12,500 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $100,357 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ASHLEY BRYAN CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Acadia: $59,885 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $30,000 · EnvironmentSEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentINSPIRE ACCESS: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$6,579,559Community Improvement$1,209,656Other$616,989Health$251,000Arts & Culture$176,357Environment$104,885Philanthropy$35,000

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 budgetNORWOOD SCHOOL INC: $5,810,868 over 5y, 13% of budgetMOUNT DESERT 365: $1,209,656 over 1y, 44% of budgetMiami University Foundation: $595,852 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $100,357 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWillowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $67,500 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $59,885 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $50,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT AND SMALL: $25,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASHLEY BRYAN CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMERCY WAY ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetMARET SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISLESFORD BOATWORKS: $6,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontgomery County Childrens Opportunity Alliance: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarietta Mentoring for Leadership Program: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION: $1,839 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Florence V Burden Fou…The Eacho Family Foun…Colket Family Foundat…Cornelia Cogswell Ros…E Newbold & Margaret …Ethel D Colket Founda…The Robert P and Arle…Gerrish H Milliken Fo…The Widgeon Point Cha…Nautilus Foundation I…Newtmont Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME23.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 55 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.

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