Does Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee 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.

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Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee

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.

$23k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 7
Grants FY2025: 4
Organizations funded FY2024: 75%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $3,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $5,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 6; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $395k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesReligionHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	7	$23k	43%
FY2024	4	$22k	75%
FY2023	6	$50k	83%
FY2022	6	$72k	67%
FY2021	3	$27k	33%
FY2020	2	$45k	50%
FY2019	4	$21k	50%
FY2018	2	$17k	100%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$106kReligion$68kEducation$41kHuman Services$32kAnimals$20kPublic Benefit$9kInternational$5kArts & Culture$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Igby International Ministries	$52,000	3	6%
Cruisin For a Cure	$35,000	3	6%
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement	$25,000	1	0%
Friends of the Newport Beach Animal Shelter	$15,000	2	14%
Sisters of St Louis	$11,300	2	n/a
IMMIGRANTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LA Community Aid	$11,000	1	7%
Catholic Charities Hawaii	$10,000	1	0%
I Padrini Di Antonellos	$10,000	1	n/a
Voice of Orange CountyOrg	$8,569	2	1%
Access Books	$5,400	2	0%

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All grantees of Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Igby International Ministries	$52,000	3	6%
Cruisin For a Cure	$35,000	3	6%
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement	$25,000	1	0%
Friends of the Newport Beach Animal Shelter	$15,000	2	14%
Sisters of St Louis	$11,300	2	n/a
IMMIGRANTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LA Community Aid	$11,000	1	7%
Catholic Charities Hawaii	$10,000	1	0%
I Padrini Di Antonellos	$10,000	1	n/a
Voice of Orange CountyOrg	$8,569	2	1%
Access Books	$5,400	2	0%
Paws of Hawaii	$5,000	1	3%
Louisville High School	$5,000	1	n/a
Aloha Harvest	$2,500	1	0%
The Commemorative Air Force	$2,500	1	0%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation	$2,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($92k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Edwin T & Eleanor L Meyer Charitable TrCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edwin T & Eleanor L Meyer Charitable Tr · William Schampeau Charitable Trust · Luise Mandel Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander Esq · Jack A & Marilyn M Zuber Char Trust · Steffi L Morris Charitable Trust co Mark Eskander ESQ · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee

How much does Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee give?: Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee reported 7 grants totaling $23,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Religion (23%), Education (14%).
Who are Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Igby International Ministries ($52k), Cruisin For a Cure ($35k), Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement ($25k).
Does Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee 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 Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edwin T & Eleanor L Meyer Charitable Tr, William Schampeau Charitable Trust, Luise Mandel Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander Esq.
Where is Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee based?: Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee is based in CA.