Ohio · Public charity
Melissa's House
MELISSA'S HOUSE creates comfortable, nurturing environments for adults living with mental illness. By breathing new life into eisting mental life health residences we help to restore hope.
- $671k
- Granted FY2022
- 5
- Grants FY2022
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2022
- $62,275
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $515,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 1
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 40% of the organizations Melissa's House funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 5 | $669k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $38k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $91k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $70k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $61k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nami Ohio | $530,053 | 2 | 17% |
| The Peer Center | $87,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Netcare Foundation | $72,000 | 2 | 43% |
| Netcare Corporation | $54,909 | 2 | 0% |
| Hopewell | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Housing Network Inc | $28,514 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($176k), not named here.
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: Columbus Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Melissa's House
- How much does Melissa's House give?
- Melissa's House reported 5 grants totaling $670,990 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Melissa's House fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (67%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Melissa's House's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Nami Ohio ($530k), The Peer Center ($87k), Netcare Foundation ($72k).
- Does Melissa's House fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Melissa's House?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Melissa's House based?
- Melissa's House is based in OH.
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