Does Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park 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 Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Westlake Health Foundation.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park 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.

$244k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 18
Grants FY2025: 19
Organizations funded FY2024: 21%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $40,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 20; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $6.4M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	18	$244k	6%
FY2024	19	$235k	21%
FY2023	20	$220k	30%
FY2022	20	$220k	75%
FY2021	13	$252k	23%
FY2020	16	$220k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$394kReligion$304kEducation$194kHuman Services$183kAnimals$126kFood & Nutrition$73kArts & Culture$50kYouth Development$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Valley Beit Midrash	$175,000	6	4%
Walther Lutheran High School Association Inc	$150,000	4	n/a
Sarah's Inn	$67,500	4	1%
Second Chance Shelter	$55,000	6	2%
Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation	$50,000	2	2%
Youth Outreach Services Inc	$45,000	4	0%
Leyden Township Community Foundation	$40,000	4	14%
The Moody Church	$40,000	2	n/a
The Field School	$40,000	2	0%
Pcc Foundation	$40,000	4	8%

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All grantees of Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Valley Beit Midrash	$175,000	6	4%
Walther Lutheran High School Association Inc	$150,000	4	n/a
Sarah's Inn	$67,500	4	1%
Second Chance Shelter	$55,000	6	2%
Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation	$50,000	2	2%
Youth Outreach Services Inc	$45,000	4	0%
Leyden Township Community Foundation	$40,000	4	14%
The Moody Church	$40,000	2	n/a
The Field School	$40,000	2	0%
Pcc Foundation	$40,000	4	8%
Peoples Animal Welfare Society	$32,500	4	2%
Aid for Women Inc	$32,500	3	0%
Jewish Child and Family Services	$30,000	3	0%
Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center	$30,000	2	0%
Leyden Family Service & Mental Health Center	$30,000	3	0%
Feeding Matters Inc	$30,000	1	4%
Phoenix Children's Hospital	$24,000	2	0%
Anderson Animal Shelter	$23,500	6	0%
Colorectal Cancer Alliance	$20,000	1	0%
Pregnancy Aid South Suburbs	$20,000	2	1%
The Zachary & Elizabeth M Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
The Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Florida Holocaust Museum Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley Inc	$10,000	1	0%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger	$10,000	1	0%
Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust	$10,000	2	1%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$10,000	2	0%
Housing Forward	$10,000	1	0%
Catnap From the Heart	$7,500	3	0%
Animal Care League	$7,500	3	0%
Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center	$5,000	1	n/a
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago	$5,000	1	n/a
Elim Christian Services	$4,000	2	0%
Cornerstone Protestant Reformed Church	$3,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($284k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 29.

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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.

Oak Park-River Forest Community FoundationIL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Westlake Health Foundation · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation

How much does Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation give?: Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $244,152 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Religion (21%), Education (14%).
Who are Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Valley Beit Midrash ($175k), Walther Lutheran High School Association Inc ($150k), Sarah's Inn ($68k).
Does Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park 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 Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Westlake Health Foundation.
Where is Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation based?: Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation is based in IL.