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Tw Myrtle Mae Mitchell

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.

$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$759kYouth Development$326kHuman Services$281kHealth$239kReligion$152kAnimals$65k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$22,374
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$22,374
MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$22,374
EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$22,374
CENTRE COLLEGE$22,374
LEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$22,374
GEORGETOWN COLLEGE$22,374
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY$22,374
GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC$22,374
KENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY$22,374
THE SALVATION ARMY$22,374
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #204 BLUEGRASS COUNCIL$22,374
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY$22,373
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE SALVATION ARMY: $25k → 9%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $25k → 8%CENTRE COLLEGE OF KY: $25k → 15%KENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY: $22k → 15%EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%MSU FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $22k → 9%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $22k → 8%CENTRE COLLEGE: $22k → 15%KENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY: $22k → 15%EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $22k → 16%MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $22k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $22k → 9%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $22k → 8%CENTRE COLLEGE OF KY: $22k → 15%EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $22k → 16%MSU FOUNDATION INC: $22k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $21k → 9%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $21k → 8%CENTRE COLLEGE OF KY: $21k → 15%CARDINAL HILL HOSPITAL EASTER SEAL SOCIETY: $25k → 15%EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $21k → 16%MSU FOUNDATION INC: $21k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $21k → 9%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $21k → 8%CARDINAL HILL HOSPITAL EASTER SEAL SOCIETY: $21k → 15%BLUE GRASS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $25k → 15%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #204 BLUEGRASS COUNCIL: $22k → 15%BLUE GRASS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $22k → 15%BLUE GRASS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $21k → 15%TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%LEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 15%LEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $22k → 15%TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $22k → 15%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY: $22k → 15%TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $22k → 15%LEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $22k → 15%LEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $21k → 15%GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $25k → 15%TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $21k → 15%GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC: $22k → 15%TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $21k → 15%GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $22k → 15%GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $21k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY: $25k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY: $22k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY: $21k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY: $21k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 13 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
4

Total granted

$1.7M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

46%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TU
    TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $152k · revenue +37%
  • GC
    GEORGETOWN COLLEGE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $152k · revenue +29%
  • MS
    MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $152k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • EK
    EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2025 · $22k · revenue 0%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #204 BLUEGRASS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2025 · $22k · revenue -49%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2025 · $22k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
5
Kentucky Wesleyan College

Foster a liberal arts education that nourishes, stimulates and prepares future leaders intellectually, spiritually and physically to achieve success in life

Education
6
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
7
Southwestern Christian University

Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…

Education
8
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
11
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
12
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown College and the most unlike its peers is Boy Scouts of America #204 Bluegrass Council. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY — $151,829 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYLEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $151,827 · OtherLEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYMOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $151,827 · OtherMOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY — $151,827 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKYBLUE GRASS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $129,453 · OtherBLUE GRASS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICACENTRE COLLEGE OF KY — $129,453 · OtherCENTRE COLLEGE OF KYGIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $129,453 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICAEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — $129,453 · OtherEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYCARDINAL HILL HOSPITAL EASTER SEAL SOCIETY — $87,241 · OtherCARDINAL HILL HOSPITAL EASTER SEAL SOCIETY+1 more — $22,374 · OtherTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY — $151,828 · EducationTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSI…GEORGETOWN COLLEGE — $151,827 · EducationGEORGETOWN COLLEGEEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $22,374 · EducationEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIV…CENTRE COLLEGE — $22,374 · EducationCENTRE COLLEGETHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $151,828 · HealthTHE SHRINERS'…KENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY INC DBA EASTERSEALS BLUEGRASS — $64,579 · HealthKENTUCKY EAST…BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #204 BLUEGRASS COUNCIL — $22,374 · Youth Development
Other$1,234,737Education$348,403Health$216,407Youth Development$22,374

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $151,828 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY — $151,828 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE — $151,827 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $151,827 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY — $151,827 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY INC DBA EASTERSEALS BLUEGRASS — $64,579 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $22,374 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC — $22,374 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE — $22,374 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN COLLEGE
  • Who funds MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY
  • Who funds KENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY INC DBA EASTERSEALS BLUEGRASS
  • Who funds EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #204 BLUEGRASS COUNCIL
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tw Myrtle Mae Mitchell funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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