Skip to content

· Private foundation

The Mitchelson Foundation Inc

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.

$127k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$127k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$551kHealth$60kReligion$32kArts & Culture$28kHuman Services$4kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$127,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$854k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
X$127,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$113k · 6 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$113k
$63k

Still filing today

0%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24
Arts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • KU
    Kansas University Endowment Association Nurse Navigator Program
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k
  • SP
    St. Pius X Catholic Student Center
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k
  • MC
    Mt. Carmel Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k

Funded once

  • CF
    COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -98%
  • OL
    Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • HL
    HNC LIVING FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +86%
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

X: $127,000 · OtherXKansas University Endowment Association Nurse Navigator Program: $50,000 · OtherKansas University Endowment Association Nurse Navigator ProgramSt. Pius X Catholic Student Center: $50,000 · OtherSt. Pius X Catholic Student CenterOur Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church: $25,000 · OtherOur Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church+6 more: $15,500 · Other+6 moreCOLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCOLONIAL …HNC LIVING FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCommunity Foundation of Southeast Kansas: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$267,500Arts & Culture$25,000Health$10,000Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetHNC LIVING FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Southeast Kansas: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY CIVIC ORCHESTRA: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HNC LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY CIVIC ORCHESTRA ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.
04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Mitchelson Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Mitchelson Foundation Inc 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 13 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $151k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Mitchelson’s filings →

More from the funding graph