· Private foundation
Melling Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHOP RAT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY | $15,000 |
| JACKSON Y-CENTER INC (YMCA) | $10,000 |
| SAINT MARTHA PARISH & SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME | $7,500 |
| JOHN GEORGE HOME | $7,500 |
| MICHIGAN THEATRE OF JACKSON INC | $5,000 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| LANSING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCOMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +30%
- JGJOHN GEORGE HOME INC6× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +89%
- REReece Endeavor of Midland5× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- TCTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF THE DIOCESE OF LANSINGone grant, 2018 · $10k
- JIJackson Interfaith Sheltergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +368%
- JDJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION SE MICHIGAN CHAPTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.
To be a multifaceted housing organization devoted to catalyzing intentional on and off site collaborative partnerships that reduces homelessness and creates sustainable communities through affordable quality housing continued education job…
To be a leading driver and advocate for community and economic development in jackson county.
Our mission remains to offer hope to adults by providing an effective continuum of high quality, valuable, and compassionate behavioral health treatment services.
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.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Assist in the development of projects in cooperation with the local government and civic bodies that secure additional employment opportunities and facilities in jackson county indiana.
Enhance delivery of quality, integrated, accessible services
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
The organization is organized exclusively for the purpose of expanding and strengthening efforts to address the housing, shelter and service needs of lowincome residents of johnson county, iowa.
Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.
To provide high quality, comprehensive child development and after school care to ensure that children can reach their highest potential
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME ↗
- Who funds JOHN GEORGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ELLA SHARP MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF JACKSON ↗
- Who funds Reece Endeavor of Midland ↗
- Who funds LIONS OF MICHIGAN SERVICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHIGAN THEATRE OF JACKSON INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Family Service and Childrens Aid ↗
- Who funds JACKSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson Interfaith Shelter ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Jackson Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds LILY MISSIONS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLEGIANCE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Jackson Community Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · Lavery Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · The Hurst Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Macchia Family Foundation · Addison P Cook III Foundation · Weatherwax Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melling Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melling Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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