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Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2019
7
Grants FY2019
7
Organizations funded FY2019
43%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$500
Largest grant, FY2019
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 8
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
5
Total assets, FY2019
$136k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 43% of the organizations Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
HealthHuman Services
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20197$21k43%
FY20186$25k17%
FY20178$23kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Human Services$39kReligion$16kHealth$7kPhilanthropy$6kRecreation & Sports$3kArts & Culture$3kEducation$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc$38,10030%
Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation$15,0002n/a
Lupus Research Alliance Inc$5,00020%
Jewish Camp and Conference Service Inc$3,17330%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$2,50010%
First Book$1,20020%
Share and Care Cockayne Syndrome Network Inc$1,00021%
Jewish Social Service Agency$1,00020%
National Jewish Health$50010%
Bender Jcc of Greater Washington$50010%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$20010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($500), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc: $38,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLupus Research Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Camp and Conference Service Inc: $3,173 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Book: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShare and Care Cockayne Syndrome Network Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Social Service Agency: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBender Jcc of Greater Washington: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family FoundationVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc

How much does Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc give?
Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $20,855 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Religion (21%), Health (10%).
Who are Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc ($38k), Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation ($15k), Lupus Research Alliance Inc ($5k).
Does Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation, The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc based?
Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 13 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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