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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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$259kRecreation & Sports$234kHealth$194kHousing & Shelter$188kHuman Services$171kAnimals$159kArts & Culture$118kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $295,285, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,474,357 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,179,072 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER$50,000
MOUNT DORA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$41,837
MOUNT DORA GOLF ASSOCIATION$35,648
MOUT DORA YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE$20,000
EARLY LEARNING COALITION$20,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$20,000
SPECIAL HEARTS FARM INC$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
CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION$10,000
MILESTONES FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
MOUNT DORA HIGH SCHOOL ACCESS CLASS$7,200
EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC$6,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAVEN OF LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES: $45k → 10%SPECIAL HEARTS FARM INC: $20k → 13%SPECIAL HEARTS FARM INC: $20k → 13%HAVEN OF LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES: $5k → 10%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $5k → 10%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $5k → 10%HAVE OF LAKE AND SUMTER: $5k → 10%HAVEN OF LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES: $5k → 10%CORNERSTONE HOSPICE: $10k → 10%CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%GOLDEN TRIANGLE YMCA: $6k → 10%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 10%LAKE SUPPORT & EMERGENCY RECOVERY: $100k → 10%LAKE CARES INC: $100k → 10%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE: $9k → 10%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.
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 27 repeat orgs$648k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
24

Total granted

$1.1M
$592k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+30%

Still filing today

74%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +22%
  • FP
    FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $63k · revenue +75%
  • EL
    EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • LS
    LAKE SUPPORT AND EMERGENCY RECOVERY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +323% · 46% of their budget
  • LC
    Lake Cares Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -36%
  • MD
    MOUNT DORA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +85%
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
Family Service of Lake County

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.

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2
Lake County Center for Independent Living

To empower people with disabilities to lead self-directed lives as valued members of the community.

Human Services
3
Lake City Humane Society Inc

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…

Animals
4
Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine Inc

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,…

Health
5
Casa Lake County Inc

Casa lake county is a nonprofit membership organization that advocates for the best interest of abused and neglected children within the juvenile court system.

Civil Rights
6
Humane Society at Lakewood Ranch Inc

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…

Animals
7
Lakeland Regional Medical Center Inc

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…

Health
8
Citizens of Lake County for Health Care Inc

The organization provides health care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay. this is a direct fulfillment of their tax exempt purpose.

Health
9
We Care of Central Florida Inc

To provide volunteer specialty medical care to low income, uninsured residents of polk county.

Civil Rights
10
Recovery Connections of Central Florida

Through empathetic compassion, we ae committed to connecting individuals and families to resources that offer multiple pathways to long-term, sustainable recovery.

Human Services
11
Dream Center of Lakeland Inc

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.

Education
12
Lake County Veterans and Family Services

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

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Florida Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 54 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOUNT DORA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $99,837 · OtherMOUNT DORA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCMOUNT DORA HIGH SCHOOL: $94,690 · OtherMOUNT DORA HIGH SCHOOLMOUNT DORA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC: $75,000 · OtherMOUNT DORA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INCAMVETS POST 1992: $75,000 · OtherAMVETS POST 1992WE CARE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $54,000 · OtherWE CARE OF LAKE COUNTY INCTRIANGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $51,923 · OtherTRIANGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCITY OF MOUNT DORA: $50,600 · OtherCITY OF MOUNT DORAMOUNT DORA HURRICANE BAND BOOSTERS: $38,545 · OtherMOUNT DORA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $35,648 · OtherCHRISTIAN HOME AND BIBLE SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherTROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC: $52,800 · OtherTROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INCMOUNT DORA COMMUNITY TRUST: $46,008 · Other+16 more: $194,731 · Other+16 moreLAKE SUPPORT AND EMERGENCY RECOVERY INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesLAKE SUPPORT AND EMERGEN…Lake Cares Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesLake Cares IncHAVEN OF LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES INC: $59,687 · Human ServicesHAVEN OF LAKE AND SUMTER…Cornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc: $47,500 · Human ServicesCornerstone Hospice Foun…SPECIAL HEARTS FARM INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL HEARTS FARM INCNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $19,732 · Human Services+2 more: $15,882 · Human ServicesTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $32,000 · HealthFLORIDA HOSPITAL WATERMAN FOUNDATION INC: $26,578 · HealthEASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC: $26,000 · HealthMILESTONE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · HealthLifestream Behavioral Center Inc: $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,501 · HealthWORTH IT SUICIDE OUTREACH & SUPPORT: $5,000 · HealthHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterFind Feed & Restore Inc: $22,000 · Housing & ShelterEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $60,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $25,200 · EducationBROOKFIELD SCHOOLS: $5,898 · EducationROUND LAKE CHARTER INC: $5,500 · EducationCREATE CONSERVATORY INC: $5,000 · EducationMOUNT DORA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ICEHOUSE PLAYERS INC: $30,538 · Arts & CultureFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $63,010 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$903,782Human Services$382,801Health$136,079Housing & Shelter$102,000Education$101,598Arts & Culture$90,538Youth Development$83,010

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAKE SUPPORT AND EMERGENCY RECOVERY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetLake Cares Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMOUNT DORA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $99,837 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMVETS POST 1992: $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $63,010 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMOUNT DORA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN OF LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES INC: $59,687 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWE CARE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $54,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC: $52,800 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc: $47,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMOUNT DORA COMMUNITY TRUST: $46,008 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSPECIAL HEARTS FARM INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $32,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ICEHOUSE PLAYERS INC: $30,538 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPOP WARNER LITTLE SCHOLARS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetFLORIDA HOSPITAL WATERMAN FOUNDATION INC: $26,578 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $25,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFind Feed & Restore Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMILESTONE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $19,732 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLKA DOGZ PET RESCUE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLifestream Behavioral Center Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DORA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOFFMEYER ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 35 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetChristian Care Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHoundhaven Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetHOOPS LIFE CARES INC: $8,750 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVILLAGERS FOR VETERANS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBROOKFIELD SCHOOLS: $5,898 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL FLORIDA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $5,882 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUND LAKE CHARTER INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATE CONSERVATORY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWORTH IT SUICIDE OUTREACH & SUPPORT: $5,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetLAKE SUMTER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT DORA BABE RUTH LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% 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.

W T Bland Jr Charitab…Hans and Cay Jacobsen…United Way of Lake an…Harper Family Charita…Charles B & Mary M Mc…Dorothy B C Steves Ch…Williams M M & R P Fd…Hunter Matthew & Mild…Martin G Roxy & Eliz …Community Foundation …The Fraternal Order o…Publix Super Markets …
W T Bland Jr Charitable TuaFL32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mount Dora Community Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mount Dora Community Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mount Dora Community Trust?

Find your warmest path to Mount Dora Community Trust 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 54 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 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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