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Tuesdays With Mitch Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

International$2.3MHuman Services$211kPhilanthropy$184kHealth$33kHousing & Shelter$18kReligion$13kArts & Culture$10kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$69k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
I AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER$24,000
CA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PACE$15,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT$5,000
THE CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT OF FL$1,000
CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN$1,000
FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$200
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 (FY18–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $2k → 21%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $1k → 8%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

IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 11 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
27

Total granted

$2.7M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+51%

Still filing today

27%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HF
    HAVE FAITH HAITI MISSION-A HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.1M
  • HF
    HAVE FAITH HAITI MISSION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M
  • IA
    I AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k

Funded once

  • HH
    HOPE HOUSE DETROIT
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • SC
    SANTA CHIARA CHILDRENS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Arthritis National Research Foundation

To provide initial research funding to brilliant, investigative scientists with new ideas to cure arthritis and related autoimmune diseases.

Health
2
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation

The foundation has three main purposes: (1)to advance dystonia research by awarding grants to basic, translational, and clinical investigators and to medical/scientific institutions committed to finding the cause and cure for all forms of…

Health
3
Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation Inc

To lead and mobilize resources toward effective management, treatment and ultimately a cure for myotonic dystrophy through education, advocacy and research.

Health
4
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals
5
The Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation

The myelodysplastic syndromes foundation (mdsf) is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting patients and caregivers affected by myelodysplastic syndromes (mds), a group of rare and life-threatening bone marrow disorders, and…

Health
6
Complex Disorders Alliance Inc

To accelerate scientific discoveries that will lead to breakthrough diagnostics, therapeutics and cures for people living with neuroimmune axis disorders.

Philanthropy
7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

Accelerate the discovery of drugs to prevent, treat and cure alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Social Science
9
Cystic Fibrosis Research Institute

To fund cystic fibrosis research, provide educational and personal support, and to spread awareness of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease.

Health
10
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
11
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
12
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associationiowa Chapter

Leading the fight to treat and cure als through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with lou gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is The Janine Sabino Foundation. 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

24 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. 24 of the 42 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAVE FAITH HAITI MISSION-A HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUNDATION: $1,142,567 · OtherHAVE FAITH HAITI MISSION-A HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUNDATIONHAVE FAITH HAITI MISSION: $1,136,000 · OtherHAVE FAITH HAITI MISSIONI AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $199,820 · OtherI AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPERCA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PACE: $112,500 · Other+17 more: $55,120 · OtherTHE JANINE SABINO FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $30,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $10,000 · HealthAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $5,000 · HealthBAY EYE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · HealthNFX: $2,000 · HealthYOGA BY DESIGN FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN INC: $1,100 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY: $5,250 · AnimalsANIMAL SHELTER OF CRAWFORD COUNTY: $500 · AnimalsDETROIT DOG RESCUE: $500 · AnimalsTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $2,500 · EducationPALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,000 · Education
Other$2,646,007Philanthropy$71,000Health$28,600Arts & Culture$10,000Animals$6,250Human Services$5,000Education$3,500

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 JANINE SABINO FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY: $5,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY EYE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNFX: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT DOG RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Kresge FoundationCommunity Foundation …Jk Farber Family Foun…DTE Energy FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Kresge FoundationMI15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Jk Farber Family Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tuesdays With Mitch Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tuesdays With Mitch Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tuesdays With Mitch Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tuesdays With Mitch Charitable 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 42 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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    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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