· Private foundation
Melaleuca 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
73% of Melaleuca Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Melaleuca Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $347k
- $250k+2 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MELALEUCA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $300,000 |
| ORPHANAGE SUPPORT SERVICES | $180,000 |
| OARWARD BOUND | $110,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - BOISE | $56,700 |
| HEART 2 HAND BINGHAM FOOD PANTRY | $33,300 |
| FEEDING TAMPA BAY | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND | $25,000 |
| IDAHO FALLS AUDITORIUM DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF EAST TN | $25,000 |
| GOLDEN HAVVEST FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| MANNA FOODBANK | $25,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY - IDAHO | $17,668 |
| THERAPIES FOR HOPE | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET | $8,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSORPHANAGE SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION5× · 2017–2021 · $662k · revenue +243% · 36% of their budget
- NCNATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $160k · revenue +68%
- H2HEART 2 HAND BINGHAM FOOD PANTRY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $41k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- KKKOALA KIDS ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $150k
- PVPROJECT VERITASone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +158%
- MLMELALEUCA LIFE ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATIone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ORPHANAGE SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE MELALEUCA MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds HEART 2 HAND BINGHAM FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Alturas Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THERAPIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melaleuca Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melaleuca Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc: 6% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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