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Joan Armour Mendell Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$239kHealth$232kArts & Culture$82kHuman Services$47kPhilanthropy$42kScience & Tech$33kFood & Nutrition$32kYouth Development$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$25,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY$15,000
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC$10,000
SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC$10,000
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$10,000
FANCOMI ANEMIA RESEARCH FUND$10,000
HARVEST LEC BENEFITING AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$6,250
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MANATEE COUNTY$6,000
MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$6,000
CARING CHILDREN'S CHARITIES$6,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE$5,000
FACE AUTISM INC$5,000
USF FOUNDATION$5,000
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $1k → 9%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $2k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE: $5k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE: $5k → 12%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $1k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $1k → 10%SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $5k → 9%SECOND CHANCE LAST OPPORTUNITY: $3k → 9%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

IL
NY
OR
PA
KY
VA
NC
DC
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$613k · 34 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
44

Total granted

$613k
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+21%

Still filing today

65%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & 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

  • SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +121%
  • RC
    RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +43%
  • MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • JU
    Jacksonville University
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +19%
  • TI
    TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +21%
  • MF
    MAYORS FEED THE HUNGRY PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -24%
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
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
2
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization'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…

Health
3
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
4
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
5
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Inc

To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.

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6
Shands Jacksonville Foundation Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization'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…

Education
7
University of Florida Health Corporation

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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8
Sarasota Military Academy Inc

Within a culture where every cadet is highly valued, sarasota military academy is committed to: (1) preparing students for college, careers, and citizenship; (2) developing tomorrow's leaders; and (3) cultivating character based upon the…

Education
9
University of South Florida Alumni Association Inc

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…

Education
10
Saint Leo University Inc

Saint leo is an inventive global catholic liberal arts university thatfosters a personal & inclusive community which educates, prepares, &develops students for success, and consists of diverse learners whoboldly confront the challenges of…

Education
11
Education Foundation of Sarasota County

To enhance the potential of students, promote excellence in teaching, and inspire innovation in education, guided by strategic philanthropy.

Education
12
Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc

See schedule ocollaboratory is a community foundation with an evolved mission committed to coordinating the solving of southwest florida's major social problems by 2040. since our founding in 1976, we have been supporting local causes and…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manatee Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
46/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 · OtherSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INCMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $33,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDAMAYORS FEED THE HUNGER PROGRAM: $20,000 · OtherMAYORS FEED THE HUNGER PROGRAMMOFFITT: $19,500 · OtherMOFFITTHARVEST LEC BENEFITING AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $16,250 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $15,000 · Other+51 more: $187,192 · Other+51 moreSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCAR…FANCONI CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthFANCONI CANCER FOUNDATIONPINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · HealthPINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATIO…FACE AUTISM INC: $13,500 · HealthFACE AUTISM INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Health+5 more: $11,500 · Health+5 moreLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $45,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHI…RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $40,000 · EducationRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART …Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc: $20,000 · EducationGeorgia Southern Univers…New College Foundation Inc: $20,000 · EducationNew College Foundation I…Jacksonville University: $17,500 · EducationJacksonville UniversityUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of South Flor…THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVA…The State College of Florida Foundation Inc: $6,650 · Education+3 more: $7,750 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE: $10,000 · Human ServicesSECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY: $8,548 · Human ServicesSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesSELAH FREEDOM INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesGATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $8,500 · PhilanthropyMANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS: $2,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureART WITH A HEART IN HEALTHCARE INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATRE INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLifeline Productions Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMAYORS FEED THE HUNGRY PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionGilmer Community Food Pantry: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$357,942Health$196,000Education$176,900Human Services$29,548Philanthropy$22,500Arts & Culture$22,000Food & Nutrition$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFANCONI CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Southern University Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew College Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJacksonville University: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFACE AUTISM INC: $13,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetFLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVELAND CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAYORS FEED THE HUNGRY PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY: $8,548 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe State College of Florida Foundation Inc: $6,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART WITH A HEART IN HEALTHCARE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStreets of Paradise Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA-BRADENTON PROJECT GUIDE RIGHT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGilmer Community Food Pantry: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Council of North Central Florida: $1,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF SARASOTA SOUTHSIDE FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSRQ VETS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSELAH FREEDOM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Manatee Assoc for Riding Therapy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Tillie Jennie & H…The Community Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …Tarr Charitable Famil…Theda Bohrer Wendy an…Msc Foundation IncManatee Community Fou…The Louis and Gloria …Charles & Margery Bar…The Rubin Charitable …Swift Family Foundati…Annette J Hagens Memo…
The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation IncFL61.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Joan Armour Mendell 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 98 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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