· Private foundation
Thomas G & Andrea Mendell Foundation
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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $30,531 |
| THE JED FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $24,867 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $19,747 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $15,265 |
| MENTOR NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC | $14,893 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $8,500 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $5,000 |
| LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GEORGE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET | $5,000 |
| COMMON GROUND CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- CRCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $377k · revenue +43%
Trustees of Tufts College6× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +50%- TJTHE JED FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +429%
Funded once
- VUVANDERBUILT UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB ( ANGEL PATRON MEMBERSHIP)one grant, 2021 · $6k
- TNTHE NEW JEWISH HOMEone grant, 2017 · $3k
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 educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Doe Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Better Balance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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. 49 of the 72 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 CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds PAGE SEVENTY-THREE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds A BETTER BALANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community 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 Thomas G & Andrea Mendell Foundation 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.
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Common Ground Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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