· 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.
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
- $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
- $250k+15 grants · $35M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEROME AVENUE FUND CO THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $25,047,906 |
| DANA-FARBER INC | $4,060,000 |
| UPSTREAM USA | $1,000,000 |
| SOCIAL FINANCE | $1,000,000 |
| YEAR UP INC | $540,000 |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY | $537,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $500,000 |
| MILFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $445,500 |
| ST VINCENT'S MEDICAL CENTER | $425,000 |
| WALTHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $402,750 |
| DUET INC | $300,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA - MA | $250,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM | $250,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $250,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn)’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 82%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FPFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +49%
YOUTH VILLAGES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +41%- HFHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +27%
Funded once
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +37%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -21%- SBSAINT BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDone grant, 2021 · $250k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Social Finance Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds DUET INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mellen Charitable Fdn (Fka Tf Fdn). Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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