Florida · Private foundation
Melva Long Trust
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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $77,941
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,736
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 13
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Melva Long Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $851k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $1,122,318 | 4 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $249,404 | 4 | n/a |
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $249,404 | 4 | 0% |
| Unity School of Christianity | $249,404 | 4 | n/a |
| St Louis Peregrine Society Inc | $249,404 | 4 | 11% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $249,404 | 4 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Missouri | $249,404 | 4 | 0% |
| The Saint Louis Zoo Association | $249,404 | 4 | 0% |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc | $249,404 | 4 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Melva Long Trust
- How much does Melva Long Trust give?
- Melva Long Trust reported 13 grants totaling $1,558,823 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 13 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Melva Long Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (60%), Animals (25%), Environment (5%).
- Who are Melva Long Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Shriners Hospitals for Children ($1.1M), The Salvation Army ($249k), Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($249k).
- Does Melva Long Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melva Long Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Melva Long Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Melva Long Trust based?
- Melva Long Trust is based in FL.
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