Utah · Private foundation
Melling Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $137k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $992k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Melling Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $137k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $74k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $74k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $61k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ocean Conservancy | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $42,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah | $25,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Protect Democracy Project | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Madre Inc | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Life Foundation USA | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ocean Conservancy | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $42,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah | $25,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Protect Democracy Project | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Madre Inc | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Life Foundation USA | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Utah Food Bank | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Road Home | $11,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Citizens Committee to Save Our | $10,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Green America | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hawkwatch International Inc | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wasatch Homeless Health Care | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Coexistence Story Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 2% |
| African Wildlife Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Tracy Aviary | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sageland Collaborative | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Wildlife Conservancy | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Global Fund for Women Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melling Family Foundation 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: The Community Foundation of Utah · The Fanwood Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Walbridge Fund · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Salt Lake County Fish and Game Asso · Ballard Miller Foundation · Palladium Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Melling Family Foundation
- How much does Melling Family Foundation give?
- Melling Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $137,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Melling Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (59%), Animals (13%), Health (11%).
- Who are Melling Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($65k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($60k), Ocean Conservancy ($50k).
- Does Melling Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melling Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Melling Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Utah, The Fanwood Foundation, Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation.
- Where is Melling Family Foundation based?
- Melling Family Foundation is based in UT.
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