Utah · Private foundation
Kenneth O Melby 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.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $65k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $50k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $55k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $60k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $50k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $47k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $45k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $45k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah Food Bank | $31,865 | 8 | 0% |
| LTAC Global | $27,177 | 4 | 4% |
| Utahns Against Hunger | $22,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Road Home | $18,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Maliheh Free Clinic | $17,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Primary Children's Cancer | $12,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Community Nursing Service | $11,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Africa Heartwood Project Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Dominicana Baseball Foundation | $11,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Haneys Harvest House Inc | $8,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Utah Medical Association Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation
How this is measured
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About Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation
- How much does Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation give?
- Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Education (23%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Utah Food Bank ($32k), LTAC Global ($27k), Utahns Against Hunger ($22k).
- Does Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kenneth O Melby Family 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 Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation, Ihc Health Services Inc.
- Where is Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation based?
- Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation is based in UT.
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