Funder Standing / The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation

The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation

TX · EIN 742170127 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

62 of 347 organizations The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 27.5%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 33.0%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
27.5%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$10,000
Range $500 – $412,792
Repeat-dollar share
81.8%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
85.2%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
Greater Houston Community Foundation$761,740
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$605,000
Vision Galveston Inc$415,000
Water Foundation$400,000
National Wildlife Federation (Austin)$370,000
Hill Country Alliance$367,000
US Water Alliance$315,000
Texas Agricultural Land Trust$300,000
The University of Texas at Austin (EI)$287,000
Texas A&M Foundation (College Station)$235,878
Houston Advanced Research Center$225,000
Rocky Mountain Institute$200,000
The Aspen Institute Inc$185,000
Nia Cultural Center$179,292
Ceres Inc$175,000
Prairie View A&M University$175,000
Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development Incnew$175,000
The Last Kilometer Corpnew$160,000
CE Buyers Institute$150,000
PowerHouse Texas$150,000
Water Finance Exchange Inc$150,000
Clean Air Task Force Inc$150,000
Texas AgriForestry Small Farmers and Ranchers$150,000
Usher Syndrome Society Incnew$143,000
Bayou City Waterkeeper Inc$130,000

Showing the 25 largest of 347 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

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