Ohio · Private foundation
The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $347k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $4k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $10k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $21k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $25k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $18k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $117k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $88k | 85% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $13k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Camp Roosevelt Firebird | $165,000 | 4 | 41% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| City Mission | $5,200 | 6 | n/a |
| Reaching Heights | $4,800 | 6 | 1% |
| Lake Erie Ink | $4,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio | $3,100 | 3 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $2,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ursuline College | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Cleveland | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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: The Cleveland Foundation · Faye Kaplan Charitable Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund with peer funders
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About The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund
- How much does The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund give?
- The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund reported 7 grants totaling $3,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (70%), Human Services (7%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of Camp Roosevelt Firebird ($165k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($7k), City Mission ($5k).
- Does The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Faye Kaplan Charitable Foundation, The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation.
- Where is The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund based?
- The Joseph and Mollie Mendes Charitable Fund is based in OH.
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