· Private foundation
Laurans a & Arlene H Mendelson Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 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
81% of Laurans a & Arlene H Mendelson Charitable Foundation Inc’s FY2026 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2025, the last year Laurans a & Arlene H Mendelson Charitable Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $750k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
Anchored by a single position: about 100% of reported assets are held in Heico Corp Common New.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORY ART | $1,209,452 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH SO FLA | $200,000 |
| UM MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $200,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MIAMI DADE | $100,000 |
| FLORIDA GRAND OPERA | $100,000 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA PBS | $50,000 |
| KRAFT CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE | $25,000 |
| AMER FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CTN | $10,000 |
| INSTITURE FOR JEWISH STUDIES | $10,000 |
| AMER FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $10,000 |
| AMER COMMITTEE FOR WEIZMANN INSTIT | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $10,000 |
| DANIELS MUSIC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Laurans a & Arlene H Mendelson Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 79%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call). Read against FY2025, 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 FY2026, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC8× · 2019–2026 · $270k · revenue +46%- RERANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +61%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE6× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- SCSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +26%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR ISRAEL AND JEWISH STUone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BBBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +26%
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.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
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The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 71 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: The Florman Family Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Laurans a & Arlene H Mendelson Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laurans a & Arlene H Mendelson Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way Miami Inc: 23% of income from government
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 19% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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