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Mount Dora Community Trust
Established in 1972, the MOUNT DORA COMMUNITY TRUST aims to enrich the quality of mount dora and northeast lake county by maximizing perpetual giving, promoting leadership in the community, and pairing donors with the causes they are passionate about.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $295,285 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,474,357 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,179,072 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER | $50,000 |
| MOUNT DORA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $41,837 |
| MOUNT DORA GOLF ASSOCIATION | $35,648 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL HEARTS FARM INC | $20,000 |
| MOUT DORA YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| EARLY LEARNING COALITION | $20,000 |
| SPEAK THE TRUTH MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE | $12,600 |
| FIND FEED RESTORE | $12,000 |
| WE CARE OF LAKE COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| MILESTONES FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MOUNT DORA HIGH SCHOOL ACCESS CLASS | $7,200 |
| EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $383k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 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; $56k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC2× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +22%
- FPFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $63k · revenue +75%
- ELEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- LSLAKE SUPPORT AND EMERGENCY RECOVERY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +323% · 46% of their budget
- LCLake Cares Incone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -36%
- MDMOUNT DORA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +85%
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.
Family service of lake county provides counseling, education, and support services to strenghten individuals and families in need to succeed in school, at work, in relationships, and within our community.
To empower people with disabilities to lead self-directed lives as valued members of the community.
The lake city humane society desires to become a leading animal advocate in florida and create a community in which all animals are free from abuse, hunger, fear, and loneliness, and to eliminate the need to euthanize dogs and cats as a…
Lvim provides high quality, compassionate, free primary medical, dental and mental healthcare to the working uninsured of polk county, florida. lvim is a primary and multi-specialty clinic providing doctor and nurse visits, lab tests,…
Casa lake county is a nonprofit membership organization that advocates for the best interest of abused and neglected children within the juvenile court system.
To offer a safe environment and shelter for companion animals including medical care, vaccinations, and micro-chipping by loving and caring individuals, until we can adopt them into a new suitable home. We do this with 100% private…
See Schedule OLakeland Regional Health's strategic imperative is to develop as a nationally recognized, fiscally strong and growing collaborative regional health system that improves lives by offering safe, high quality, equitable and…
The organization provides health care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay. this is a direct fulfillment of their tax exempt purpose.
To provide volunteer specialty medical care to low income, uninsured residents of polk county.
Through empathetic compassion, we ae committed to connecting individuals and families to resources that offer multiple pathways to long-term, sustainable recovery.
A christian community center that serves to positively impact the lives of "at-risk" children, youth, and families within lakeland's inner city, through programs and partnerships that develop the mind, body, and spirit.
Connect service members families with each other with the benefits resources they earned deserve through professionally trained Veteran Peer Specialists, free confidentially, regardless of discharge status
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Create Conservatory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 54 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 LAKE SUPPORT AND EMERGENCY RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DORA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DORA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds AMVETS POST 1992 ↗
- Who funds FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DORA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds WE CARE OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DORA COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL HEARTS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
- Who funds THE ICEHOUSE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds POP WARNER LITTLE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOSPITAL WATERMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Find Feed & Restore Inc ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Lifestream Behavioral Center Inc ↗
- Who funds POLKA DOGZ PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF LAKE COUNTY GOLDEN TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DORA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Houndhaven Inc ↗
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: W T Bland Jr Charitable Tua · Hans and Cay Jacobsen Charitable Foundat · United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc · Harper Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Charles B & Mary M McLin Foundation · Dorothy B C Steves Char Ta · Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Hunter Matthew & Mildred Char Ta · Martin G Roxy & Eliz C Fdn Ta · Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc · The Fraternal Order of Eagles Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities 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 Mount Dora Community 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.
- Lifestream Behavioral Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trout Lake Nature Center 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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