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Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$103kEducation$97kFood & Nutrition$62kHousing & Shelter$30kRecreation & Sports$24kInternational$18kReligion$16kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Utah Food Bank$11,000
The Dr Dale B Hull Foundation$7,000
The Road Home$7,000
The Waterford School$5,000
Primary Children's Hospital Foundat$5,000
LTAC Global$3,000
Utahns Against Hunger$3,000
Wilde Baseball Scholarship Fund$2,400
Davis High School$2,400
Liberia Missionary Launch$2,000
Juneau Flukes$2,000
Faye and Charolette Bryner Scholars$2,000
Maliheh Free Clinic$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,200
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 (FY18–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Africa Heartwood Project: $3k → 14%Haney's Harvest House: $2k → 6%Africa Heartwood Project: $3k → 14%Haney's Harvest House: $2k → 6%Africa Heartwood Project: $3k → 14%Haney's Harvest House: $2k → 6%Africa Heartwood Project: $1k → 14%Haney's Harvest House: $1k → 6%Africa Heartwood Project: $1k → 14%Haney's Harvest House: $1k → 6%Ability Foundation: $500 → 8%Fill the Pot Ministry: $2k → 8%Fill The Pot Ministry: $1k → 8%Fill The Pot Ministry: $500 → 8%The Road Home: $7k → 8%The Road Home: $2k → 8%The Road Home: $2k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NY
NJ
CA
UT
DC
AL
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$379k · 42 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
20

Total granted

$379k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+3%

Still filing today

48%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    8× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +95%
  • UA
    UTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $22k · revenue +23%
  • TR
    THE ROAD HOME
    7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • BC
    BYU Center for Language Studies
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
3
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
4
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Utah Swat Inc
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7
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
8
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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9
Salt Lake American

Serving refugees living in Salt Lake County who are unable to communicate in English and do not know how to navigate the system on-call 24-7 provided free a language interpreter and guidance through the system also help during weekday…

Religion
10
Utah Youth Sports Academy Foundation Fka Rsl Youth Academy Foundation
Recreation & Sports
11
The Utah Autism Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Lightspark Foundation
Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utahns Against Hunger; the most unlike its peers is Utah Grays. 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

29 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. 29 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Dr Dale B Hull Foundation: $37,000 · OtherThe Dr Dale B Hull FoundationUTAH FOOD BANK: $31,865 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKThe Waterford School: $24,500 · OtherThe Waterford SchoolUTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER: $22,000 · OtherUTAHNS AGAINST HUNGERIndividual grant recipient: $12,700 · OtherHumantarian Service - LDS: $12,000 · OtherPRIMARY CHILDREN'S CANCER: $12,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $11,000 · OtherDOMINICANA BASEBALL FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Other+37 more: $107,820 · Other+37 moreTHE ROAD HOME: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HO…AFRICA HEARTWOOD PROJECT INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesAFRICA HEAR…Haneys Harvest House Inc: $8,000 · Human ServicesHaneys Harv…FILL THE POT MINISTRY: $3,500 · Human ServicesFILL THE PO…+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesLTAC Global: $27,177 · EducationLTAC Glob…WIKITONGUES INC: $4,000 · EducationWIKITONGU…Help Start Education Foundation: $3,000 · EducationHelp Star…Maliheh Free Clinic: $17,000 · HealthASH FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthYOUTH FUTURES: $3,000 · HealthINDO-AMERICAN EYE CARE SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · HealthSalt Lake Education Foundation: $8,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ELM FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity Hospital Foundation: $3,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY: $7,000 · Food & NutritionBUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA: $4,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 · International
Other$281,885Human Services$41,000Education$34,177Health$28,000Philanthropy$18,000Food & Nutrition$7,000International$7,000

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 budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $31,865 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLTAC Global: $27,177 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetUTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER: $22,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $17,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICA HEARTWOOD PROJECT INC: $11,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetHaneys Harvest House Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELM FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASH FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA: $4,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWIKITONGUES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUTAH SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION IN: $3,570 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFILL THE POT MINISTRY: $3,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FUTURES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Hospital Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHelp Start Education Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINDO-AMERICAN EYE CARE SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASATCH THUNDER YOUTH ATHLETICS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY FOUND CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSEAT FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH YOUTH RUGBY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds LTAC Global ↗
  • Who funds UTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds AFRICA HEARTWOOD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Haneys Harvest House Inc ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE ELM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds ASH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds WIKITONGUES INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION IN ↗
  • Who funds FILL THE POT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE ↗
  • Who funds University Hospital Foundation ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…C Scott & Dorothy E W…Ihc Health Services I…Dominion Energy Chari…The Community Foundat…Utah Medical Associat…Kennecott Utah Copper…Intermountain Communi…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Cross Charitable Foun…Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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 Kenneth O Melby Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kenneth O Melby 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 64 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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