· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANTS | $374,277 |
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 (FY17–24, $297k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 -4% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k 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
- LWLAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $545k · revenue +85%
- FLFAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +38%
- VSVANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue -4%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -60%
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.
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
To bring the best of public education to our community by providing innovation and choice within a continuous pre-school through post secondary curriculum so that each child recognizes the benefits of life-long learning, constructive…
To preserve and protect old and historic building of the mountain lake estates historic district in lake wales, florida.
The organization exists to provide a biblically centered educational environment so that its students may be equipped to become christ honoring members of their families, churches, and communities.
To provide elementary educational services to lake county, florida as a charter school.
The learning resource center of polk county, inc. (lrc) is passionately devoted to pursuing its mission to help students maximize their learning potential by providing personalized supplemental education programs for students, consultative…
The purpose of the foundation is to render financial assistance and support the lake wales care center, inc. to assist in its endeavor to render assistance to those in genuine need with the highest level of caring, without regard to race,…
The underlying property was sold in 2019. the organization is in the process of winding down.
To meet the educational needs of the community by offering a variety of high quality vocational and technical training opportunities for high school and adult students. the college is a post secondary technical college.
Gainesville independent school, inc. a.k.a. lakeview academy is a college-preparatory school committed to excellence in the personal growth and academic development of today's student through a partnership of school, family, and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Wales Care Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Idols Aside Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 25 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 WALES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC ↗
- Who funds CITRUS CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN AND GOLD FOUNDATION OF LAKE WALES INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Idols Aside Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 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: 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
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 Mountain Lake Community Service Inc 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.
- Lake Wales Care 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.