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Joan Armour Mendell Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| FANCOMI ANEMIA RESEARCH FUND | $10,000 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| HARVEST LEC BENEFITING AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $6,250 |
| CARING CHILDREN'S CHARITIES | $6,000 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MANATEE COUNTY | $6,000 |
| MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FACE AUTISM INC | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE | $5,000 |
| USF FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +117%- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC5× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +43%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- JUJacksonville Universityone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +19%
- MFMAYORS FEED THE HUNGRY PROGRAM INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -24%
- TITSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +21%
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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To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
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UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
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The mission of the usf alumni association is to foster a mutually beneficial, lifelong relationship between the university and its alumni; to inspire loyalty and pride among current and future alumni; and to advocate for excellence in…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manatee Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness. 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 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 98 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 SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds New College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FANCONI CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FACE AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds MAYORS FEED THE HUNGRY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds The State College of Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ART WITH A HEART IN HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · Theda Bohrer Wendy and Tracey Shapiro Charitable Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Rubin Charitable Foundation Inc · Swift Family Foundation Inc · Annette J Hagens Memorial Foundation
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 Joan Armour Mendell Foundation Inc 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.
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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.
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