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We Mikhail Foundation at a glance

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We Mikhail Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$168k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$100kInternational$38kHealth$15kPhilanthropy$12kReligion$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kArts & Culture$310Human Services$250Other$0
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION$100,000
RAD-AID INTERNATIONAL$35,888
MAYO CLINIC$15,000
UNITED WAY$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
ST GEORGE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH$1,000
ST ELIAS ORTHODOX CHURCH$1,000
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 (FY19–20, $250) 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%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of We Mikhail Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

We Mikhail Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46k · 4 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +269% since the first grant, against +119% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$46k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+269%
+119%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • RI
    RAD-AID INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +269%
  • SG
    ST GEORGE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k
  • MF
    MAYO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2020 · $2k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • SR
    SAINT ROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200 · revenue +205%
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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum 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.
05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 18 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATIONRAD-AID INTERNATIONAL INC: $37,888 · HealthRAD-AID INTERNATIONAL INCMAYO CLINIC: $15,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICUNITED WAY: $10,000 · OtherUNITED WAYST GEORGE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $6,000 · OtherST GEORGE COPT…MAYO FOUNDATION: $2,100 · OtherMAYO FOUNDATIO…Individual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual gra…SAINT ROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherST ELIAS ORTHODOX CHURCH: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $400 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 · Human ServicesST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $200 · Housing & ShelterMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $110 · Arts & CultureNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $110 · EnvironmentHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $100 · International
Education$100,000Health$52,888Other$22,500Human Services$5,250Housing & Shelter$200Arts & Culture$110Environment$110International$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAD-AID INTERNATIONAL INC: $37,888 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $100 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Rad-Aid International Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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.

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 18 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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