· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $237k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALTHER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| NAOMI'S HOUSE | $25,000 |
| THE FIELD SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH | $25,000 |
| YATOM | $21,652 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SW FL | $10,000 |
| PCC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| LEYDEN FAMILY SERVICES & MENTAL HEALTH | $10,000 |
| SARAHS INN | $10,000 |
| AID FOR WOMEN INC | $10,000 |
| PREGNANCY AID SOUTH SUBURBS | $10,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE SHELTER | $10,000 |
| FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| LEYDEN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- VBVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +102%
- SISARAH'S INN4× · 2022–2025 · $68k · revenue +22%
- SCSECOND CHANCE SHELTER6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- BHBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPEone grant, 2020 · $30k
- FMFEEDING MATTERS INCone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -12%
- TZTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +45%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.
Jewish family service is a human service organization which reflects the jewish tradition of caring and compassion for all people in need. through professional counseling, advocacy and educational programming, our services seek to enhance…
Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…
Jewish family & children's services of southern arizona helps all people meet their full potential by providing expert community and behavioral health services.
Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Jfsla's mission is to provide life-improving services that help the people of los angeles live with dignity and exercise self-determination. we believe in and strive for a more compassionate los angeles where no one has to navigate life…
Jewish family and children's service supports people through life's changes and challenges while providing quality and affordable social services.
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Child and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Children's Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEYDEN TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PCC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLES ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds FEEDING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Leyden Family Service & Mental Health Center ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY AID SOUTH SUBURBS ↗
- Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CATNAP FROM THE HEART ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Faye and Lee Alport Foundation F/K/A Melrose Park Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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