Florida · Private foundation
The Mendez Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $255k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 8
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations The Mendez Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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 | 6 | $255k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $211k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $247k | 88% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experience Camps | $200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Bicycles for Humanity - Colorado | $95,000 | 3 | 38% |
| Insight Through Education Inc | $90,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Propel a Cure | $80,000 | 1 | 40% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Norton Museum of Art Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medical Debt Resolution Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc | $6,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Frenchmans Creek Charities Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The American Friends of Museums in Israel | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experience Camps | $200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Bicycles for Humanity - Colorado | $95,000 | 3 | 38% |
| Insight Through Education Inc | $90,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Propel a Cure | $80,000 | 1 | 40% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Norton Museum of Art Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medical Debt Resolution Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc | $6,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Frenchmans Creek Charities Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The American Friends of Museums in Israel | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Scripps Health | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mendez Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About The Mendez Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Mendez Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Mendez Family Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $255,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Mendez Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (26%), Arts & Culture (22%), Health (17%).
- Who are The Mendez Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Experience Camps ($200k), Bicycles for Humanity - Colorado ($95k), Insight Through Education Inc ($90k).
- Does The Mendez Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mendez Family Foundation Inc 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 Mendez Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Mendez Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Mendez Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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