· Private foundation
Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k578 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WIU SPEECH LANGUAGE HEARING CLINIC | $15,000 |
| MONMOUTH COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| CARL SANDBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,950 |
| ALMAGUER AYDEN L | $2,950 |
| CHAVEZ BRIANA S | $2,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,858 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,813 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,650 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,650 |
| SPILMAN WESLEY W | $2,650 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
1229 repeat relationships: 376 still active in FY2025, 853 since wound down; 206 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $384k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMONMOUTH COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +2%
- CSCARL SANDBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +137%
- WAWarren Achievement Center Inc3× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- CSCarl Sandburg Collegeone grant, 2021 · $15k
- KCKNOX COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +21%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The mission of morris college is to produce graduates who can pursue useful and productive careers and in so doing enhance their own lives and the society in which they take their places. that mission is being successfully implemented by…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Centre college is a small, independent, and selective educational community dedicated to study in the liberal arts as a means to develop the intellectual, personal, and moral potential of its students. centre nurtures in its students the…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 1,961 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Pattee Foundation Inc · Twomey Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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