FundersNew York

Lake Mahopac Rotary Foundation Inc

Mahopac, NY · EIN 14-1746381. Reported 66 grants totalling $154,515 to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$154,515granted, 2021-2024
39organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$201,380assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Lake Mahopac Rotary Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,500; the smallest was $125 and the largest $20,216. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
16 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
45 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Rotary ClubMahopac, NY$57,106442024
Cove CareCarmel, NY$8,100442024
Putnam CapBrewster, NY$8,000222022
Putnam Community Action PtnrBrewster, NY$8,000222024
Second Chance FoodsCarmel, NY$7,500332024
Putnam Nw Womens Resource CtrMahopac, NY$5,000222024
Rotary Club of Ashville FoundationAsheville, NC$5,000112024
RylaEncinitas, CA$4,880332024
Putnam Service DogsBrewster, NY$4,250332024
My Brother VinnyYorktown Heights, NY$4,000222022
Rotary District 5000 FoundationHonolulu, HI$4,000112023
Putnam County DssCarmel, NY$3,900222023
Putnam Childrens CommitteeCarmel, NY$3,750332023
Mahopac Boy ScoutsMahopac, NY$3,000332024
Prevention Council of PutnamCarmel, NY$3,000332024
Putnam Arts CouncilMahopac, NY$2,000222024
Shelter Box USALakewood Ranch, FL$2,000222022
Temple Beth ShalomMahopac, NY$1,650112021
Communities That CareMahopac, NY$1,500112021
Pegasus Therapeutic RidingBrewster, NY$1,500112023
Putnam County Childrens CommitteeCarmel, NY$1,500112024
Putnam Nw Womens Resource CenterMahopac, NY$1,500112021
Putnam Community CaresMahopac, NY$1,400112023
Rotary District 7210Middletown, NY$1,350112022
St Johns Food PantryMahopac, NY$1,300112022
Pajama Program-Putnam County ChapteNew York, NY$1,250222024
Friends of Green ChimneysBrewster, NY$1,000112024
Girl Scouts Heart of the HudsonMontgomery, NY$1,000112023
Putnam Communities That Care CoalitCarmel, NY$1,000222024
Putnam County Humane SocietyCarmel, NY$1,000112022
Putnam County SPCACarmel, NY$1,000112024
Putnam SPCACarmel, NY$754112021
Blue Bath Service DogsHopewell Junction, NY$500112024
Lake Mahopac Garden ClubMahopac, NY$500112021
Putnam Humane SocietyCarmel, NY$500112024
Chris KrausMahopac, NY$250112024
Francis Carroll Family FoundationBoston, MA$250112024
Alzheimers AssociationBrewster, NY$200112021
Carmel Rotary ClubCarmel, NY$125112024

17 of 39 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 24 grants to individuals totalling $28,750 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
6 grants
Diseases & Disorders
5 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Education
1 grant
Mutual Benefit
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$29,754$1,500
202214$41,366$1,500
202317$45,661$1,400
202421$37,734$1,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 90% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$138K
North Carolina
$5K
California
$5K
Hawaii
$4K
Florida
$2K
Massachusetts
$250

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Lake Mahopac Rotary Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: C/O Weiss Advisory Group 704 Rte 6, Mahopac, NY, 10541. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 14-1746381 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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