Massachusetts · Private foundation
Melvoin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $205k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 85
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Melvoin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 | 49 | $197k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $151k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $280k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $247k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 85 | $204k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Shore Senior Center | $75,305 | 4 | 0% |
| Steppingstone Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $64,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Center for Justice | $30,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Para Los Ninos | $30,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United in Harmony | $28,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Sunday | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Temple Shir Tikva | $21,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 92 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($365k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melvoin 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · California Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Rosenthal Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Melvoin Foundation
- How much does Melvoin Foundation give?
- Melvoin Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $205,269 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 85 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Melvoin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (19%), Human Services (11%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Melvoin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: North Shore Senior Center ($75k), Steppingstone Foundation Inc ($65k), Anti-Defamation League ($65k).
- Does Melvoin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melvoin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Melvoin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Melvoin Foundation based?
- Melvoin Foundation is based in MA.
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