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Kendrick B Melrose Family Foundation at a glance

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Kendrick B Melrose Family 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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$3.0MHealth$1.8MReligion$1.1MRecreation & Sports$1.0MEducation$957kArts & Culture$636kInternational$471kAnimals$173kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $151k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $284k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.1M
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Park Nicollet Foundation$1,068,000
GCSAA Foundation$1,000,000
Wayzata Community Church$1,000,000
No Barriers USA$126,000
Helping Paws Inc$82,500
Alzheimers Association Minnesota-North Dakota Chapter$75,000
MN Veterans Pantry$30,500
Waimea Community Theater$25,000
Twin Cities Public Television$15,000
Minnesota Public Radio$15,000
American Bear Association$15,000
Catholic Community Foundation$15,000
Giving Voice Initiative$12,600
Hill Cities$12,600
Open Arms of Minnesota$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Helping Paws Inc: $83k → 11%Helping Paws Inc: $50k → 11%Helping Paws Inc: $25k → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 15 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$7.4M
$978k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
-4%

Still filing today

67%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationReligionHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther
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

  • IO
    INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +23%
  • PN
    PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +88%
  • HP
    HELPING PAWS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $158k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • CR
    CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $845k
  • ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -4%
  • SA
    Scholarship America
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
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.

1
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations Inc

Ampers (association of minnesota public educational radio stations), founded in 1972, exists to help member stations better serve their diverse communities by generating revenue, developing and sharing programming, and actively work to…

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3
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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4
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
5
Minnesota Association of Geriatrics Inspired Clinicians
Health
6
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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7
Minnesota Public Health Association Inc

The mission of the minnesota public health association (mpha) is to create a healthier minnesota through effective public health practice and engaged citizens. our vision is to be an active, independent voice for public health in minnesota.

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8
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
9
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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10
Leadingage Minnesota

Leadingage minnesota is driven to transform and enhance the experience of aging. we build member capacity by providing business intelligence tools, advocacy, education and networking; lead transformation and innovation of care delivery;…

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11
The Great Northern Winter Festival

The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…

Arts & Culture
12
Minnesota Paralyzed Veterans of America

The minnesota paralyzed veterans of america (mnpva) a minnesota nonprofit organization, is an officially recognized paralyzed veterans of america chapter. mnpva assists veterans with spinal cord injuries or spinal cord diseases, such as ms…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is Waimea Community Theatre. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $3,000,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $1,246,000 · OtherPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATIONWayzata Community Church: $1,025,000 · OtherWayzata Community ChurchCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $845,311 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLCREATE A MEMORY FOUNDATION: $545,000 · OtherCREATE A MEMORY FOUNDATION+13 more: $651,600 · Other+13 moreGCSAA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationGCSAA FOUNDAT…ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $100,000 · EducationST MARYS UNIV…NO BARRIERS USA: $471,000 · InternationalALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $279,000 · HealthHELPING PAWS INC: $157,500 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIVING VOICE INITIATIVE: $36,100 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGOODCITIES: $42,400 · ReligionGIVING VOICE: $20,500 · Religion
Other$7,312,911Education$1,100,000International$471,000Health$279,000Human Services$167,500Arts & Culture$66,100Religion$62,900

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $3,000,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $1,246,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNO BARRIERS USA: $471,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $279,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING PAWS INC: $157,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHill Cities Inc: $67,600 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetGOODCITIES: $42,400 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetGIVING VOICE INITIATIVE: $36,100 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetMN VETERANS PANTRY: $30,500 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWaimea Community Theatre: $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetGIVING VOICE: $20,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARRIER FREE GOLF INC: $5,000 over 1y, 17% of budget
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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationUnited Way WorldwideMightycause Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kendrick B Melrose Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kendrick B Melrose Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kendrick B Melrose Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kendrick B Melrose Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 29 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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