Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima
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.
- $575k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 15 | $575k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $200k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $245k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $35k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $380k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $215k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $173k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tanzanian Childrens Fund Inc | $253,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $190,000 | 6 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $170,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Asia Wild | $150,000 | 6 | 20% |
| Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Housing Works Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Island Harvest Ltd | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The New York Times Communities Fund | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Peconic Land Trust Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Long Island | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tanzanian Childrens Fund Inc | $253,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $190,000 | 6 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $170,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Asia Wild | $150,000 | 6 | 20% |
| Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Housing Works Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Island Harvest Ltd | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The New York Times Communities Fund | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Peconic Land Trust Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Long Island | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Idyll Dandy Arts | $55,000 | 4 | 54% |
| Homeworthy | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Yemen Aid Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of the Bahamas Humane Society Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 23% |
| Fairfield University | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Maine Recovery Access Project | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Third World Organizing | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Needlepoint Sanctuary of Maine | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Nomenus Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shikshya Foundation Nepal Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Saint Paul School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The King's Trust USA Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima
- How much does Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima give?
- Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima reported 15 grants totaling $575,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (26%), Animals (20%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Tanzanian Childrens Fund Inc ($253k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($190k), City Harvest Inc ($170k).
- Does Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima 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 Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima based?
- Matthew T Mellon Foundation-Ima is based in PA.
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