Florida · 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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2023
- 23
- Grants FY2023
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
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.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $3,199,081
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 8
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 23 | $3.4M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $259k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $184k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $197k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $204k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $145k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $106k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $477,551 | 7 | 0% |
| East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc | $236,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New Life Mission Inc | $40,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Rhino Conservation Botswana Trust USA | $35,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Tabitha USA Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| National Park Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St John Fisher University | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Brevard Rescue Mission Inc | $13,200 | 3 | 1% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust with peer funders
About Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust
- How much does Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust give?
- Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust reported 23 grants totaling $3,429,324 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (71%), Education (11%), Animals (7%).
- Who are Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Worcester Polytechnic Institute ($478k), East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc ($236k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($110k).
- Does Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust 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 Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Brevard Inc, American Express Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust based?
- Jack and Bonnie Mollen Charitable Foundation Trust is based in FL.
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