· Private foundation
Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of JACK AND BONNIE MOLLEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST’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 · FY2023
- Under $10k16 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACK AND BONNIE MOLLEN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $3,199,081 |
| EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $101,000 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $52,551 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| NEW LIFE MISSION | $13,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN FISHER COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE CHIMPS | $8,617 |
| B THE DIFFERENCE | $5,181 |
| ST JOHN BAPTIST FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| HOLY NAME OF JESUS | $2,450 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| DONORCHOOSE | $1,973 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $1,500 |
| SAINT'S PLACE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M 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
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2023 · $478k · revenue +63%- ECEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC2× · 2022–2023 · $236k · revenue +17%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2018–2020 · $110k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- TUTABITHA USA INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -75%
- BABREVARD ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +44%
- BOBAND OF PARENTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +138%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rhino Conservation Botswana Trust Usa. 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 44 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 52 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 WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds RHINO CONSERVATION BOTSWANA TRUST USA ↗
- Who funds TABITHA USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Brevard Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HUMAN RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE CHIMPS INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds PIRATE TOY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BREVARD ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAND OF PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
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: Community Foundation for Brevard Inc · American Express Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Aetna Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust 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.
- Brevard Achievement Center Inc — 39% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
- East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.