Mount Dora Community Trust
Mount Dora, FL · EIN 23-7227875. Reported 61 grants totalling $1,265,237 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Mount Dora Community Trust, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T310).
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 39% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,501. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Care Inc | Mount Dora, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lake Support and Emergency Recovery Inc | Clermont, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mount Dora High School | Mount Dora, FL | $94,690 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | The Villages, FL | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Amvets | Mount Dora, FL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mount Dora Lawn Bowling Club Inc | Mount Dora, FL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mount Dora High School Access Class | Mount Dora, FL | $51,923 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce | Mount Dora, FL | $50,837 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Haven of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc | Leesburg, FL | $49,687 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Early Learning Coalition of Lake County | Leesburg, FL | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Special Hearts Farm Inc | Gotha, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Forward Paths Foundation Inc | Leesburg, FL | $37,444 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mount Dora Golf Association | Mount Dora, FL | $35,648 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| We Care of Lake County Inc | Mount Dora, FL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc | Tavares, FL | $27,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Florida Hospital Waterman Foundation Inc | Tavares, FL | $26,578 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Easter Seals Florida Inc | Winter Park, FL | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Educational Foundation of Lake County Inc | Leesburg, FL | $25,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc | Langhorne, PA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mount Dora Fire Department | Mount Dora, FL | $22,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Find Feed & Restore | Clermont, FL | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Speak the Truth Ministries Inc | Lake Mary, FL | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | Kansas City, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milestone Family Services Inc | Clermont, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lake County Animal Shelter | Tavares, FL | $19,199 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trout Lake Nature Center Inc | Eustis, FL | $16,392 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Icehouse Players Inc | Mount Dora, FL | $15,414 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc | Orlando, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rotary International | Mount Dora, FL | $13,782 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Boggy Creek Gang Inc | Eustis, FL | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $11,501 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Houndhaven Inc | Minneola, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Polka Dogz Pet Rescue | Oakland, FL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Vision for Independence Inc | Leesburg, FL | $9,342 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mount Olive AME | Mount Dora, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Villagers for Veterans Inc | The Villages, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christian Care Center Inc | Leesburg, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Create Conservatory | Mount Dora, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lake Sumter Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | Leesburg, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mount Dora Hurricane Band Boosters | Mount Dora, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
18 of 40 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Lake Cares Inc
FOOD PANTRY CAPITAL CAMPAIGN - Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter
PRESERVATION & REPAIR - MT DORA - Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce
COMMUNITY GIVE BACK EVENTS - Mount Dora High School
MUSIC TECH & SOUND ENGINEERING LAB - Lake County Animal Shelter
SPAY & NUETER ANIMAL WELFARE - City of Mount Dora
COMMUNITY EVENTS LIBRARY ART DISPLAY
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28 | $607,629 | $12,641 |
| 2022 | 17 | $362,323 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $295,285 | $13,800 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
96% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,501 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mount Dora Community Trust's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1406, Mount Dora, FL, 32756.
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