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Ce Mendez Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$95kArts & Culture$55kPhilanthropy$44kEducation$32kHealth$22kYouth Development$12kAnimals$5kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,689
Median grant
2
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$5,000
OPEN HAND ATLANTA$3,689
SEBRING HALL OF FAME INC$3,500
PIEDMONT HEIGHTS ALLIANCE$250
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 (FY21–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STOREHOUSE WEST: $250 → 10%FOOD DEPOT: $2k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
OH
CO
KY
AZ
NM
NC
GA
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$211k · 12 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
22

Total granted

$211k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

83%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • OH
    OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +21%
  • GU
    GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $43k · revenue +28%
  • SH
    SEBRING HALL OF FAME INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +258%

Funded once

  • SF
    SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -47%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +189%
  • SR
    Steve Rummler Hope Network
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -69%
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
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
5
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
6
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
7
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
8
Orlando Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the orlando health foundation is to support the strategic priorities of orlando health through philanthropy. this is accomplished through special events and annual major and planned gift fundraising efforts.

Health
9
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
11
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
12
The James Beard Foundation Inc

The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Mark Donohue Foundation 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 34 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $81,755 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND ATLANTA INCNDI NEW MEXICO: $38,850 · OtherNDI NEW MEXICOGEORGIA ORGANICS INC: $10,400 · OtherGEORGIA ORGANICS INCSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · OtherSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND…THE FOOD DEPOT: $3,000 · Other+12 more: $8,695 · Other+12 moreGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $43,000 · PhilanthropyGROWING UP NEW MEX…+2 more: $1,100 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationSANTA FE COM…ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $11,050 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 · HealthSteve Rummler Hope Network: $2,500 · HealthSANTA FE CONCORSO: $700 · Health+3 more: $1,500 · HealthSEBRING HALL OF FAME INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE SANTA FE: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MARK DONOHUE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Food & Nutrition$81,755Other$65,945Philanthropy$44,100Education$30,000Health$19,250Arts & Culture$15,500Youth Development$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $81,755 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $43,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $11,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA ORGANICS INC: $10,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEBRING HALL OF FAME INC: $6,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSteve Rummler Hope Network: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE SANTA FE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARK DONOHUE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPIEDMONT HEIGHTS ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBREAST CANCER HOPE CHEST: $500 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE OF GENEROSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDunedin Fine Art Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOREHOUSE WEST INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Thornburg FoundationPnm Tnmp FoundationSanta Fe Community Fo…Bolene Charitable Tru…Gale Family FoundationAnchorum St VincentBrindle FoundationNusenda FoundationBattelle Memorial Ins…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…
Thornburg FoundationNM17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thornburg Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Bolene Charitable Trust · Gale Family Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Brindle Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Ce Mendez Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ce Mendez Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ce Mendez Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ce Mendez Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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