Massachusetts · Private foundation
Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn)
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.
- $36M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $425,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,047,906
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $308M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $36M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $5.6M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $5.0M | 82% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Inc | $5,650,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Upstream USA Inc | $3,000,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Year Up Inc | $2,160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | $1,537,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Vincent's Medical Center | $1,525,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Teach for America Inc | $1,300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Social Finance Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $750,000 | 3 | 1% |
| New England Aquarium Corporation | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Inc | $5,650,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Upstream USA Inc | $3,000,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Year Up Inc | $2,160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | $1,537,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Vincent's Medical Center | $1,525,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Teach for America Inc | $1,300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Social Finance Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $750,000 | 3 | 1% |
| New England Aquarium Corporation | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Vocational Service Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Milford Public Schools | $445,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Duet Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 9% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($27M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) 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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Compare Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) with peer funders
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About Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn)
- How much does Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) give?
- Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) reported 17 grants totaling $35,658,156 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Health (23%), Employment (6%).
- Who are Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn)'s largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Dana-Farber Inc ($5.7M), Upstream USA Inc ($3.0M), Year Up Inc ($2.2M).
- Does Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) 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 Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn)?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) based?
- Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) is based in MA.
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