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Thomas & Lisa Mandel Family Foundation at a glance

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Thomas & Lisa Mandel Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$408k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.2MEducation$660kHuman Services$463kReligion$310kHealth$256kArts & Culture$130kCommunity Improvement$91kEnvironment$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $713k
  • $250k+1 grant · $408k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Community Board of Akron$408,000
United Way of Summit & Medina Mandel Community Cen$200,000
Case Western Reserve University$175,000
Jewish Community Centers Association$100,000
Temple Israel$75,100
Stewart's Caring Place$62,500
Syracuse University$50,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh$50,000
Akron Marathon Charitable Corporation$45,000
Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park$30,000
Akron Community Foundation$25,000
Summit Artspace$25,000
University Circle Incorporated$15,000
Victim Assistance Program$15,000
Open Tone Music$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $488k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Jewish Community Centers Association: $200k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $500 → 14%Jewish Community Centers Association: $100k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $50k → 17%Victim Assistance Program: $15k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $10k → 13%Victim Assistance Program': $10k → 13%Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland: $2k → 17%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 18 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

$2.5M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+19%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $475k · revenue +13%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +14%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • GA
    GREATER AKRON AMENITIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • SA
    Salvation Army The
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CROWELL HILAKA
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +24%
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
Akron Parks Collaborative

To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…

Recreation & Sports
2
Greater Akron Chamber

To promote business in the tri-county area

—
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
4
Commission On Cemetery Preservation

Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland including the preservation of jewish cemeteries

—
5
Akron Zoological Park

We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.

Animals
6
The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy
7
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
8
Akron History Center

The mission of the Akron History Center is to create an enduring long-lasting free museum-quality exhibit about Akrons history that inspires residents educates young people and welcomes visitors to our community.

Arts & Culture
9
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
10
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
11
Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc

Inspired by jewish values, we create meaningful experiences and opportunities to enrich, connect, and celebrate a vibrant jewish community.

—
12
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Board of Akron; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Crowell Hilaka. 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

24 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. 24 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRON: $939,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRONJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $550,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELANDJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $98,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH+3 more: $85,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Summit & Medina Mandel Community Cen: $600,000 · OtherUnited Way of Summit & Medin…TEMPLE ISRAEL: $210,100 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAELAKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $100,000 · OtherAKRON CIVIC THEATREHILLEL AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherHILLEL AT KENT STATE UNIVERS…+14 more: $81,218 · Other+14 moreCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $475,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESE…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSI…OLD TRAIL SCHOOL: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $450,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMU…VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesVICTIM ASSIS…+2 more: $2,887 · Human ServicesSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $250,500 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $60,000 · EnvironmentGREATER AKRON AMENITIES INC: $50,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$1,672,500Other$1,091,318Education$665,000Human Services$487,887Health$255,500Environment$60,000Public Benefit$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRON: $939,500 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $550,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $475,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $450,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $250,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $98,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER AKRON AMENITIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE AKRON MARATHON CHARITABLE CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOLD TRAIL SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT ARTSPACE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CROWELL HILAKA: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWITAN Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP AKRON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Tone Music: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland: $2,387 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Akron Community Found…The Welty Family Foun…United Way of Summit …Mary S & David C Corb…Lehner Family Foundat…Gar FoundationSynthomer Foundation …The Morton and Barbar…Kenneth L Calhoun Cha…W Paul Mills & Thora …Lloyd L & Louise K Sm…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…
Akron Community FoundationOH32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · The Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation

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 Thomas & Lisa Mandel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas & Lisa Mandel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 Thomas & Lisa Mandel Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Thomas & Lisa Mandel Family Foundation 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 37 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-PF 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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