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Mellon Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Mellon Family Foundation Inc

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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$25kAnimals$7kPhilanthropy$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$500
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Breakthrough T1D$5,000
Alzheimer's Association$1,750
Make A Wish$1,000
Paws of Honor$500
Barrington Area Community Foundation$500
American Red Cross$500
Muts With A Mission$500
Shriners Children's$500
American Cancer Society$500
Project K9 Hero$450
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Shriners Children's: $500 → 13%Project K9 Hero: $450 → 14%American Cancer Society: $1k → 13%Toys for Tots: $750 → 6%American Red Cross: $500 → 14%ALS Association: $2k → 7%Paws of Honor: $500 → 7%Muts With A Mission: $500 → 10%Project K9 Hero: $400 → 14%American Cancer Society: $750 → 13%Toys for Tots: $500 → 6%National Multiple Sclerosis: $750 → 14%ALS Association: $500 → 7%Mutts With A Mission: $400 → 10%Project K9 Hero: $400 → 14%American Cancer Society: $750 → 13%Animal House Shelter: $1k → 6%National Multiple Sclerosis: $750 → 14%Mutts With A Mission: $400 → 10%American Cancer Society: $750 → 13%Animal House Shelter: $1k → 6%Make A Wish: $1k → 14%American Cancer Society: $500 → 13%Animal House Shelter: $750 → 6%Make-A-Wish Foundation: $750 → 14%American Cancer Society: $500 → 13%Make-A-Wish Foundation: $500 → 14%Make A Wish: $400 → 14%Make A Wish: $400 → 14%Barrington Area Community Foundatio: $1k → 14%Barrington Area Community Foundation: $750 → 14%Barrington Area Community Foundation: $750 → 14%Barrington Area Community Foundation: $750 → 14%Barrington Area Community Foundation: $500 → 14%Barrington Area Community Foundation: $500 → 14%Breakthrough T1D: $5k → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $3k → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $2k → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $2k → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $1k → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $750 → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $750 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34k · 12 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$34k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +17%
  • BA
    BARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +77%
  • MW
    MUTTS WITH A MISSION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
  • AR
    American Red Cross
    one grant, 2024 · $500
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
2
Alzheimer's Impact Movement

To advance and develop policies to overcome alzheimer's and all other dementia through increased investment in research, enhanced care and improved support.

Health
3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Als One Inc

The organization is a partnership of world leaders in als research and care focused on expediting breakthrough treatments and ultimately a cure for als while providing resources and equipment to those living with the disease now. the team…

Health
5
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
6
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
7
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
8
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
9
Answer Als

To find solutions for people living with als now and for the future by utilizing knowledge of patients, leading researchers and technology to seek immediate solutions to improve the lives of those living with als until a treatment or cure…

Health
10
National Brain Tumor Society Inc

National brain tumor society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, andunites our community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments,and advocate for patients and care partners.

—
11
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation

To fund research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing or reversing alzheimer's disease. all overhead expenses are paid by the board of directors, trustees and core group of other donors, allowing 100% of general donations to…

Health
12
Cure Rare Disease Inc

Our mission is to enable and finance the development of life-saving genetic medicines for ultra-rare patient populations previously deemed too rare to treat. to realize this, our unique ecosystems facilitates collaboration between…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is Animal House Shelter Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,500 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSNTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH+1 more: $500 · HealthMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $2,800 · AnimalsMUTTS WITH A MISSIONANIMAL HOUSE SHELTER INC: $2,750 · AnimalsANIMAL HOUSE SHELTER…PROJECT K9 HERO: $1,250 · AnimalsPROJECT K9 HEROPAWS OF HONOR INC: $500 · AnimalsPAWS OF HONOR INCMake A Wish: $1,800 · OtherMake A WishNational Multiple Sclerosis: $1,500 · OtherNational Multiple…Toys for Tots: $1,250 · OtherToys for TotsMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $1,250 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUND…American Red Cross: $500 · OtherAmerican Red Cros…BARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC: $4,250 · PhilanthropyBARRINGTON A…
Health$22,250Animals$7,300Other$6,300Philanthropy$4,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC: $4,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $2,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HOUSE SHELTER INC: $2,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mellon Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mellon Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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