· Private foundation
Mellema Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS MYELOMA CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROOSMOOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $8,000 |
| JOHN MUIR LAND TRUST | $6,000 |
| TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST | $6,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES OF CONTRA COSTA | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CONTRACOSTA | $5,000 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CONTRA COSTA SOLANO FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
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 +20% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JMJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $66k · revenue +113%
- BOBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +63%
- JMJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +1%
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.
The mission of john muir is to improve the health of the communities we serve with quality and compassion.
Malt's mission is to permanently protect marin's agricultural land for agricultural use. malt's vision for marin county is a thriving and inclusive agricultural community in a healthy and diverse natural environment.
To provide isolated homebound seniors in san francisco with nutritious meals, daily human contact, and supportive services to prevent their premature institutionalization.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Passionately deliver relevant products, services, and education tailored to help our members, employees, and communities achieve their financial goals.
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
The mission is to build health equity in silicon valley.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 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 MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Hedco Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mellema Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mellema Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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