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The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation
The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,000 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $380k
- Net assets
- $420M
What The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation does
Programs
Cook's Branch Conservancy - See Statement 21
$680,287 spentMitchell Innovation LabThe Mitchell Innovation Lab seeks to identify and research the next most-pressing and future sustainability issues, beyond the programs we already fund. Topics like the energy transition and other up-and-coming sustainability questions are areas of focus, with projects like the Permian Energy Development Lab.
$757,261 spentClean EnergyThe Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation is committed to clean energy in the state of Texas and supports strategic efforts that ensure that the state's growing demand for power is both minimized and met with the cleanest and water-leanest sources of electricity possible. Our clean energy program has three areas of focus: enhancing Distributed Energy Resources (DERs); catalyzing community-scale energy projects; and reducing Industrial emissions.
$366,287 spentShale (Sub-Surface Energy)The foundation focuses on improving the governance of subsurface energy development in addition to supporting efforts to reduce the negative environmental and community impacts of shale gas development. The Subsurface Energy Program supports a number of solution-driven strategies, including 1) examination of the interplay between federal, state, and local governance around shale development and protocol development to guide industry-community interactions; 2) comprehensive analysis of the risks associated with shale resource development, especially with respect to ground and surface water; and 3) support for collaborative and inclusive efforts to modernize the regulatory scheme for oil and gas operations in the state of Texas, which the foundation believes is needed because regulations may not have kept pace with the use of advanced drilling technologies.
$345,222 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $299M to $547M (+83%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
C Grant Mitchell
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $70k → $310k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 50% · 2022 81% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation?
- The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,000 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $380,000 in grants to The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing