How much does Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation give?

Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $40,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Religion (16%), Human Services (1%).

Who are Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Keren Ahavas Chesed ($37k), Congregation Zichron Yosef ($16k), Davis Memorial Fund Inc ($12k).

Does Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Joseph and Malka Melohn 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 Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Zichron Chaim Charity Fund.

Where is Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation based?

Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation is based in NY.

Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation

Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$41k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$41k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$617kReligion$136kHuman Services$13kEducation$2kArts & Culture$2kHealth$1kInternational$250Other$0

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,700

Median grant

States reached

$182k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
501c3 ORG AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST	$40,700

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$746k · 8 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +231% since the first grant, against +102% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$746k

$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+231%

+102%

Still filing today

13%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureReligionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

5O
501c3 ORG AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
4× · 2021–2024 · $616k
YC
Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim Inc
2× · 2018–2020 · $57k
KA
KEREN AHAVAS CHESED
3× · 2018–2020 · $37k

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $72k
CZ
CONGREGATION ZICHRON YOSEF
one grant, 2020 · $16k
MH
MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +37%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion

Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy

Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion

Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion

Sherit Isroel

—

Yeshivas Ohr Yissochor Academy Inc

To operate a school in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith.

Education

Society for the Welfare of Israeli Underprivileged Gifted Children

To provide educational assistance to underprivileged gifted children in israel.

International

Partners in Torah Inc

To provide support to yeshivath beth yehudah's adult education program

Education

Congregation Beth-El Sephardic Center of Jamaica Estates

Congregation beth-el sephardic center of jamaica estates is a religious institution

Religion

Rabbi David L Silver Yeshiva Academy

To provide education in general and judiac studies

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesorah Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Yana Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

11/13

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$833,329Human Services$12,700Arts & Culture$6,800Health$1,050Education$790Religion$360

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Ojc FundNY27× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Cdl Foundation Inc · The Ganger Foundation Inc · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation · Md Friedman Family Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation · Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld Foundation Inc · Jsw 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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