How much did MELLING FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of MELLING FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

elementary

2020

elementarycatholic

2021

contributionselementary

2022

contributions

2023

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $500
$50k–250k1 grant · $200k

$200,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

JACKSON Y-CENTER INC (YMCA)$200,000
LAZY B'S RANCH INC$500

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$538k · 18 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$538k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+14%

Still filing today

28%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CM
COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY
5× · 2018–2022 · $29k · revenue +167%
JF
JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME
4× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +39%
RE
REECE ENDEAVOR OF MIDLAND
4× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +62%

Funded once

WT
WITNESS TO HOPE
one grant, 2018 · $10k
JI
JACKSON INTERFAITH SHELTERgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +90%
JD
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION SE MICHIGAN CHAPTER
one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Jackson Community Development Corp

Our vision is to seek the wholistic wellbeing of the Jackson neighborhood, where residents are known, valued, and empowered to collaborate for the thriving of its people and place.

Community Improvement

Harbor House of Jackson Inc

To offer hope to adults by providing compassionate behavioral health treatment services.

Health

Jackson County Community

Enhance delivery of quality, integrated, accessible services

—

Dubuque and Jackson County Habitat for

To build affordable and decent housing for low income families

—

Habitat for Humanity - Jackson

Offer affordable housing to low income families

—

Jackson Community Ambulance

The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide accessible high quality prehospital health care services to the people and organizations we serve in south central michigan.

Public Safety & Disaster

Jackson Community Food Pantry

JACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY makes food accessible to people without judgement and without barriers, building a sense of community between our participants, our volunteers and our supporters.

Food & Nutrition

Hiawatha Homes Inc

Providing residential, in-home, and community-based choices for people with disabilities.

—

Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

Serves as a resource to the community for all companion animal related issues

Animals

Jubilee Habitat for Humanity Inc

Provide housing in the community

Housing & Shelter

Habitat for Humanity Mississippi

Building, selling and financing affordable housing for low-income families in the jackson, mississippi metropolitan area.

—

Hospice of Jackson County

Provides high quality, compassionate end-of-life care for the community

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson Interfaith Shelter and the most unlike its peers is Family Service and Childrens Aid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

9/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$515,500Human Services$43,500Philanthropy$12,500Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

John George Jr Paragraph X TrustMI18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · Jackson Community Foundation · The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · The Hurst Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation MELLING FAMILY FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 460811596 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Melling Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Melling Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MELLING FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Melling Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MELLING FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Melling Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph