Florida · Public charity
Mountain Lake Community Service Inc
To support local charities by making grants to these organizations so that they may carryout their charitable activities.
- $374k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $374,277
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $374,277
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $514k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Mountain Lake Community Service Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $374k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $337k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $313k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $331k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $206k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $327k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $235k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $200k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Wales Care Center Inc | $545,130 | 8 | 4% |
| Lake Wales Charter School Foundation Inc | $237,102 | 7 | 8% |
| Family Literacy Academy at Lake Wales Inc | $197,000 | 8 | 21% |
| Citrus Center Boys & Girls Clubs Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Vanguard School of Lake Wales Florida Inc | $124,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Victory Ridge Academy Inc | $102,708 | 8 | 0% |
| Green and Gold Foundation of Lake Wales Inc | $100,000 | 8 | 20% |
| Lake Wales Arts Council Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Circle of Friends Ministry Inc | $58,800 | 3 | 15% |
| Lake Wales Literacy Council Inc | $58,000 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 21 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($552k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mountain Lake Community Service Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Givewell Community Foundation Inc · The Jahna Foundation Inc · Florida's Natural Growers Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Florida Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation · Epic Affect Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The McCance Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Duke Energy Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mountain Lake Community Service Inc
- How much does Mountain Lake Community Service Inc give?
- Mountain Lake Community Service Inc reported 1 grants totaling $374,277 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mountain Lake Community Service Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Human Services (23%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Mountain Lake Community Service Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lake Wales Care Center Inc ($545k), Lake Wales Charter School Foundation Inc ($237k), Family Literacy Academy at Lake Wales Inc ($197k).
- Does Mountain Lake Community Service Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mountain Lake Community Service Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Givewell Community Foundation Inc, The Jahna Foundation Inc, Florida's Natural Growers Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mountain Lake Community Service Inc based?
- Mountain Lake Community Service Inc is based in FL.
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