· Private foundation
Melville House Inc
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 $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| WAGNER COLLEGE | $11,000 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $10,000 |
| STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ADELPHI UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ECKERD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY | $9,006 |
| STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY | $5,653 |
| BARUCH COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTIC | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY2× · 2018–2019 · $32k · revenue +63%
- BUBRYANT UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $24k · revenue +31%
- SJST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK2× · 2017–2018 · $24k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 56 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 THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds WAGNER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ADELPHI UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melville House Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melville House Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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