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Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 49
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$26k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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 arriving11$17k36%
FY202410$195k60%
FY20239$9k67%
FY202234$417k47%
FY202149$894k92%
FY202026$466kn/a
77% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$201kPhilanthropy$85kHealth$30kHuman Services$15kFood & Nutrition$4kEducation$4kYouth Development$3kOther$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hatzolah Emergency Air Response Team Inc$180,0001n/a
Congregation Tiferes Tzvi$113,0002n/a
Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan$105,0003n/a
American Friends of Ramot Torah Schools$100,18015%
Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah Inc$100,0002n/a
Congregation Masores Hachinuch Inc$75,0001n/a
Bikur Cholim of Manhattan Inc$30,05041%
Yeshiva Ohavei Torah of Riverdale Inc$28,00021%
Yeshiva Ktana of Passaic$25,00010%
Congregation Kol Yakov Inc$20,0001n/a
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All grantees of Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hatzolah Emergency Air Response Team Inc$180,0001n/a
Congregation Tiferes Tzvi$113,0002n/a
Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan$105,0003n/a
American Friends of Ramot Torah Schools$100,18015%
Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah Inc$100,0002n/a
Congregation Masores Hachinuch Inc$75,0001n/a
Bikur Cholim of Manhattan Inc$30,05041%
Yeshiva Ohavei Torah of Riverdale Inc$28,00021%
Yeshiva Ktana of Passaic$25,00010%
Congregation Kol Yakov Inc$20,0001n/a
Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid$15,0001n/a
Gan Aliya$12,0001n/a
Congregation Derech Emes of Wesley Hills$10,0001n/a
Yad Chaya Inc$10,00020%
Hineni Inc$5,00010%
Our Place Inc$4,100216%
Lakewood Cheder School Inc$3,50010%
Davis Memorial Fund Inc$3,00010%
West Side Hatzoloh$2,50010%
Agudath Israel of Long Island$2,5001n/a
Cong Ohel Yaakov Inc$2,5001n/a
Congregation Zichron Mordechai Shlomo$2,0001n/a
Yeshiva Har Torah$1,80010%
Zichron Eliyahu Inc$1,80010%
Refuah Resources$1,8001n/a
Congregation Ohav Sholom$1,3003n/a
The Rabbi Dr Leo Jung Memorial Fund$1,00011%
Yad Lachmu Anyu Lenitzruchin Choq Lyisroel$1,0001n/a
Jewish Women's Club Inc$86020%
Kupath Rambahn Kolel Polin$6002n/a
Congregation Beth Mikroh Inc$5001n/a
Congregation Adas Yereim$4001n/a
Central Fund of Israel$30010%
Netivot Israel$2501n/a
Chasdei Meshilam$2501n/a
Koznitz Congregation-Avodas Yisroel Inc$2001n/a
Yeshivath Torah Vodaath$2001n/a
Avigdors Helping Hand Inc$18010%
Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch$1801n/a
Hillel of Rockland County Inc$18010%
Yeshiva Mkor Chaim$1001n/a
Chebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Associationinc$10010%
Yeshivas Chsan Sofer Inc$1001n/a
Bais Hamedrash and Mesivta of Baltimore Inc$1001n/a
Kollel Ner Lavrohom$1001n/a
Zaka$181n/a
Chmol Inc$181n/a
Refuah Yeshuah$181n/a

Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Ramot Torah Schools: $100,180 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBikur Cholim of Manhattan Inc: $30,050 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetYeshiva Ohavei Torah of Riverdale Inc: $28,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYeshiva Ktana of Passaic: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYad Chaya Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHineni Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOur Place Inc: $4,100 over 2y, 16% of budgetLakewood Cheder School Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavis Memorial Fund Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Side Hatzoloh: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYeshiva Har Torah: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZichron Eliyahu Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rabbi Dr Leo Jung Memorial Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJewish Women's Club Inc: $860 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvigdors Helping Hand Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillel of Rockland County Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Associationinc: $100 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 18.

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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.

The Ojc FundNY47× affinity30 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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund · The Ohr Hakotel Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Yale Fishman Family Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family 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 Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation

How much does Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation give?
Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $17,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (58%), Public Safety & Disaster (9%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hatzolah Emergency Air Response Team Inc ($180k), Congregation Tiferes Tzvi ($113k), Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan ($105k).
Does Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
Where is Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation based?
Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

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 106 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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