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James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees

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.

$300k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
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, 0% of the organizations James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees 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%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationOther
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 arriving5$300k0%
FY20245$300k0%
FY20235$300k20%
FY20225$300k0%
FY20216$250k0%
FY20206$240k0%
FY20196$235k17%
FY20186$220k17%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.0MEducation$645kHuman Services$475kCommunity Improvement$215k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Uncornered Inc$475,00092%
Youthbuild Boston Inc$425,00092%
LEAP for Education Inc$410,00094%
UTEC Inc$360,00070%
Third Sector New England Inc$215,00060%
More Than Words Inc$180,00051%
The Match Foundation Inc$35,00011%
Rodman For Kids Inc$25,00010%
Raw Art Works Inc$20,00011%
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology$20,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUncornered Inc: $475,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetYouthbuild Boston Inc: $425,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $410,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetUTEC Inc: $360,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThird Sector New England Inc: $215,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMore Than Words Inc: $180,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Match Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRaw Art Works Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBenjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology: $20,000 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 10.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees

How much does James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees give?
James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees reported 5 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (43%), Education (28%), Human Services (20%).
Who are James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Uncornered Inc ($475k), Youthbuild Boston Inc ($425k), LEAP for Education Inc ($410k).
Does James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees 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 James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust, Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund.
Where is James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees based?
James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees 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 11 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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