· Private foundation
Charles B & Mary M McLin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of CHARLES B & MARY M MCLIN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE SUMTER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATIO | $25,000 |
| ADVENTHEALTH WATERMAN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GROW Healthy Kids | $20,000 |
| ADI FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,041 |
| FLORIDA STORYTELLING ASSN | $7,200 |
| MEANINGFUL MILESTONE ACADEMY | $6,000 |
| EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC | $5,000 |
| Central Florida Dreamplex | $5,000 |
| The Learning Curve Academy | $5,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| ARC SUNRISE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $3,500 |
| JANE AUSTEN FEST MOUNT DORA | $2,000 |
| MOUNT DORA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| MOUNT DORA COMMUNITY TRUST | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LSLAKE-SUMTER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +102%
- FPFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +750%
- ESEASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- RLROUND LAKE CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $15k
- EHEUSTIS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $10k
- NONMB ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -66%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To help students with learning disabilities succeed in school and in lilfe
At Space Coast Discovery, we believe that every child, of every ability deserves individualized instruction and benefits from inclusive classroom environments. (continued on Sched O)Our unique inclusion program provides equal learning…
The organization was founded in 2004 to help abused, abandoned or neglected children in need, specifically children confined to foster care facilities between the ages of 6-18 in central florida. the organization provides mentors to assist…
Charter school, approx. 200 students grades K-8.
To discover and foster each student's unique abilities revealing their highest potential within an engaged community.
Our mission is to prepare young readers for personal and collective success through consistent one-to-one reading instruction provided by competent and nurturing volunteers. We offer a literacy tutoring program that pairs community…
To provide elementary educational services to lake county, florida as a charter school.
To encourage greater professionalism, knowledge and skills among educators serving in school districts of florida through professional development, technical services, and supplemental financial support where district needs are unmet.
The mission of The Chase Academy, a private K-12 school for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, is to provide the academic and independent living skills required to maximize each child's capacity for living independently as adults,…
The mission of the florida center for the blind is to foster hope, confidence and independence in individuals with visual impairments; and to educate the community about preventing vision loss.
The organization helps at-risk students earn standard high school diplomas and prepare for post-secondary success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grow Healthy Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Create Conservatory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LAKE-SUMTER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GROW HEALTHY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Building Blocks Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING CURVE INC ↗
- Who funds MEANINGFUL MILESTONES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NMB ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ADI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HURRICANE BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISEARC INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mount Dora Community Trust · Harper Family Charitable Foundation Inc · W T Bland Jr Charitable Tua · United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc · Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Hunter Matthew & Mildred Char Ta · Sarah W George Charitable Trust · Dorothy B C Steves Char Ta · Hans and Cay Jacobsen Charitable Foundat · Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc · William M and Marian R Haywood Charitable Trust · Live Well Foundation of South Lake Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Charles B & Mary M McLin Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trout Lake Nature Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bay Street Players Inc — 0% of income from government
- Building Blocks Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.