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Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc

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.

$44k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,150
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$173k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving7$44k14%
FY20246$19k0%
FY20239$27k0%
FY20229$20k11%
FY202111$15k36%
FY202011$11k91%
FY20197$2kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$59kFood & Nutrition$39kEducation$20kHousing & Shelter$9kHealth$6kRecreation & Sports$4kYouth Development$750Religion$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
NourishNC Inc$32,47060%
Rosey's Rescue Inc$10,90038%
Shepherd's Table Soup Kitchen Inc$6,90030%
Pine Street Inn Inc$4,50060%
Rescue Missions Ministries Inc$4,21560%
Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc$3,50030%
Carolina Poodle Rescue$1,10010%
Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines Inc$75010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$50010%
St Mark Armenian Apostolic Church$5001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$25010%
Children's Hospital Corporation$25010%
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc$2501n/a

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNourishNC Inc: $32,470 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRosey's Rescue Inc: $10,900 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetShepherd's Table Soup Kitchen Inc: $6,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRescue Missions Ministries Inc: $4,215 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVictory Junction Gang Camp Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCarolina Poodle Rescue: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 11.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc

How much does Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc give?
Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $43,865 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (42%), Food & Nutrition (29%), Education (14%).
Who are Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: NourishNC Inc ($32k), Rosey's Rescue Inc ($11k), Shepherd's Table Soup Kitchen Inc ($7k).
Does Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc 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 Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Verizon Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc based?
Harry S & Kathleen H Melikian Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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