Florida · Private foundation
Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 | 27 | $1.8M | 59% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $1.8M | 45% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.9M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $1.9M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.1M | 79% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $51k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $483k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $975,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Montefiore Medical Center | $949,352 | 5 | 0% |
| Loyola University Maryland Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Opera Association Inc | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Alliance for Eating Disorders Inc | $117,991 | 6 | 1% |
| Palm Beach Cultural Innovation Center | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $82,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Their Stories Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 37% |
| The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | $50,930 | 1 | 0% |
| Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass | $48,250 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc give?
- Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $1,814,764 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cornell University ($975k), Montefiore Medical Center ($949k), Loyola University Maryland Inc ($200k).
- Does Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc 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 Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc based?
- Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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