Louisiana · Private foundation
Melancon 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.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $661
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Melancon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% 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 | 7 | $16k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $51k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $51k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $9k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $25k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $21k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fourchon Oilman's Association Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Lafourche Parish Animal Shelter | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Human Life International Inc | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation | $11,710 | 4 | 1% |
| Lafourche Education Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Friends of Bayou Lafourche Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 2% |
| La 1 Coalition Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cut Off Youth Center | $1,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Bayou Civic Club Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fourchon Oilman's Association Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Lafourche Parish Animal Shelter | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Human Life International Inc | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation | $11,710 | 4 | 1% |
| Lafourche Education Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Friends of Bayou Lafourche Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 2% |
| La 1 Coalition Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cut Off Youth Center | $1,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Bayou Civic Club Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lafourche Chamber Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Tarpon Cheer Booster Club | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Bayou Region Crime Stoppers Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Eric Thibodaux Athletic Scholarship Fund | $250 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melancon 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: Danos Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Melancon Family Foundation
- How much does Melancon Family Foundation give?
- Melancon Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $16,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Melancon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Public Benefit (22%), International (13%).
- Who are Melancon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Fourchon Oilman's Association Inc ($31k), Lafourche Parish Animal Shelter ($25k), Human Life International Inc ($23k).
- Does Melancon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melancon 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 Melancon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Danos Foundation, Community Foundation of Acadiana, The Greater New Orleans Foundation.
- Where is Melancon Family Foundation based?
- Melancon Family Foundation is based in LA.
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