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Winston C & Surel L Mitchell Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$239kEducation$21kRecreation & Sports$12kHousing & Shelter$11kHuman Services$10kHealth$4kFood & Nutrition$3kAnimals$1k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$644k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUREL'S PLACE INC$15,000
TREASURE VALLEY ARTISTS ALLIANCE$4,000
CAMP RIVER RUN$4,000
WCA$4,000
GARDEN CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$4,000
CHILDREN'S HOME COUNSELING SERVICES$4,000
TREASURE VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S ARTS$2,000
BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER$2,000
MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES$1,497
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $3k → 8%BOISE VERTICAL FARM: $3k → 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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$242k · 9 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +150% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$242k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+150%
+24%

Still filing today

89%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SP
    SUREL'S PLACE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $152k · revenue +163% · 31% of their budget
  • BC
    BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +65%
  • GL
    GLOBAL LOUNGE INCORPORATED
    3× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • LL
    LEARNING LAB INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +11%
  • SS
    STORY STORY NIGHT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +24%
  • BH
    BOISE HIVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -13%
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
Boise Little Theater

Performing arts

Arts & Culture
2
The Boise Bard Players

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Id Theatre Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Underdogs Boise
Arts & Culture
5
Idaho Dance Theatre

Provide affordable dance to public

Human Services
6
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
7
Spokane Interactive Arts

we're an arts non profit that serves underserved artists through our residency program

Arts & Culture
8
Wallace District Arts Council Inc

Provide musical and artistic performances in rural North Idaho, mainly in Wallace, Idaho.

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9
Actors Repertory Theatre of Idaho

Produce plays for public entertainment

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10
ReUse Market Inc

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…

Environment
11
The Blue Door Theatre

The Blue Door Theatre is dedicated to the advancement of improvisation and the performing arts, and community building through innovative entertainment and education.

Arts & Culture
12
Idaho Film Society

The idaho film society airms to pioneer meaningful cinematic experiences within our communities by designing space where makers can create share and grow.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boise Contemporary Theater Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUREL'S PLACE INC: $152,000 · Arts & CultureSUREL'S PLACE INCBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INCGLOBAL LOUNGE INCORPORATED: $12,500 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL LOUNGE INCORPORATEDLAUREN EDSON DANCE INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $26,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreIdaho Prison Arts Collective: $8,000 · OtherIdaho Prison…LEARNING LAB INC: $5,500 · OtherLEARNING LAB…TREASURE VALLEY ARTISTS ALLIANCE: $4,000 · OtherTREASURE VAL…WCA: $4,000 · OtherWCACHILDREN'S HOME COUNSELING SERVICES: $4,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S H…IDAHO CONCERTS IN CARE INCORPORATED: $2,500 · OtherIDAHO CONCER…Individual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual g…MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES: $1,497 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherSTEP AHEAD IDAHO: $11,000 · EducationGARDEN CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationCAMP RIVER RUN INC: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsINTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC: $10,500 · Housing & ShelterBOISE VERTICAL FARM INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesWomen's and Children's Alliance: $2,500 · Human ServicesCity of Good Inc: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$222,500Other$32,497Education$15,000Recreation & Sports$12,000Housing & Shelter$10,500Human Services$5,000Community Improvement$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUREL'S PLACE INC: $152,000 over 8y, 31% of budgetBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL LOUNGE INCORPORATED: $12,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCAMP RIVER RUN INC: $12,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetSTEP AHEAD IDAHO: $11,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetINTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLAUREN EDSON DANCE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLEARNING LAB INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOISE HIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBOISE ART MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOISE COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGARDEN CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCity of Good Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOISE VERTICAL FARM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Laura Moore Cunningha…Claude R & Ethel B Wh…Idaho Community Found…Four J FoundationLangan Barber Foundat…Harad Family Foundati…Percival Stern Founda…Idaho Womens Charitab…Simplot Company Found…Idaho Power Foundatio…Hansberger FoundationThe Bews Foundation
Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation IncID26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Winston C & Surel L Mitchell Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winston C & Surel L Mitchell Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 26 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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