· Private foundation
Winston C & Surel L Mitchell Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUREL'S PLACE INC | $15,000 |
| TREASURE VALLEY ARTISTS ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| CAMP RIVER RUN | $4,000 |
| WCA | $4,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME COUNSELING SERVICES | $4,000 |
| GARDEN CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| TREASURE VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S ARTS | $2,000 |
| BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER | $2,000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES | $1,497 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +150% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPSUREL'S PLACE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $152k · revenue +163% · 31% of their budget
- BCBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +65%
- GLGLOBAL LOUNGE INCORPORATED3× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- LLLEARNING LAB INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +11%
- SSSTORY STORY NIGHT INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +24%
- BHBOISE HIVE INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Performing arts
The boise bard players is a mobile theatre company making shakespeare and other classics economically and emotionally accessible to residends of the treasure valley and beyond.
ID Theatre, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization incorporated in Idaho. The organization is dedicated to developing new plays. It workshops over 12 new plays a year through the Seven Devils Playwrights conference in Idaho. They have sit…
Provide affordable dance to public
Music & arts performances
we're an arts non profit that serves underserved artists through our residency program
Provide musical and artistic performances in rural North Idaho, mainly in Wallace, Idaho.
Produce plays for public entertainment
The goal of the ReUse Market is to keep clean, reusable art/craft materials out of the landfill and put them into the hands of artists, crafters, teachers, and others who can repurpose them into imaginative works of art as well as useful…
The Blue Door Theatre is dedicated to the advancement of improvisation and the performing arts, and community building through innovative entertainment and education.
The idaho film society airms to pioneer meaningful cinematic experiences within our communities by designing space where makers can create share and grow.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boise Contemporary Theater Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp River Run Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SUREL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LOUNGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CAMP RIVER RUN INC ↗
- Who funds STEP AHEAD IDAHO ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREN EDSON DANCE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Idaho Prison Arts Collective ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds STORY STORY NIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE HIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEY REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds City of Good Inc ↗
- Who funds BOISE VERTICAL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds TRICA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Four J Foundation · Langan Barber Foundation · Harad Family Foundation · Percival Stern Foundation · Idaho Womens Charitable Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Hansberger Foundation · The Bews Foundation
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 Winston C & Surel L Mitchell Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.