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Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina 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.

$951k
Granted FY2022
32
Itemized grants FY2022
30
Organizations funded FY2022
10%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$930k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 38
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
4
Total assets, FY2022
$6.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 10% of the organizations Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22
EnvironmentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202230$930k10%
FY202138$1.2M29%
FY201927$547k56%
FY201837$1.0M76%
FY201718$119kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.0MArts & Culture$394kHousing & Shelter$282kEducation$277kEnvironment$44kReligion$36kAnimals$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$2,265,10050%
University of Evansville$506,50030%
Haley House Inc & Affiliates$253,250111%
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc$143,20040%
Ceres Inc$40,00030%
Evansville Zoological Society Inc$15,00011%
Ozanam Family Shelter Corp$12,50031%
Housing Corporation of Arlington$10,20030%
Signature School Foundation$10,0002n/a
Holy Redeemer School - Evansville$8,5003n/a
Show all 38 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($519k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $2,265,100 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Evansville: $506,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHaley House Inc & Affiliates: $253,250 over 1y, 11% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $143,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCeres Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEvansville Zoological Society Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOzanam Family Shelter Corp: $12,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHousing Corporation of Arlington: $10,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Trace Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #156: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSignature School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarthwatch Institute Inc: $3,352 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Evansville Indiana Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $1,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Boston's Homeless Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWnin Tri-State Public Media Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Science: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Clothes Club Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Land Institute: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHaiti Projects Inc: $525 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Link Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Repertory Theatre Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoor People's United Fund: $300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $240 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Spy Pond Park: $175 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: $135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boston Globe Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArlington Land Trust Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA19.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Koch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Bussing-Koch Foundation Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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About Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation

How much does Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation give?
Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation reported 32 itemized grants totaling $929,770, out of $950,870 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are International (18%), Philanthropy (9%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($2.3M), University of Evansville ($507k), Haley House Inc & Affiliates ($253k).
Does Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Koch Foundation Inc, Community Foundation Alliance Inc.
Where is Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation based?
Eykamp Foundation FKA Melvina Foundation is based in MA.

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 77 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $579k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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