· Private foundation
Melvoin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE SHIR TIKVA | $20,000 |
| THE STEPPINGSTONE FOIUNDATION | $15,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LAIST | $10,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $10,000 |
| WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE | $9,000 |
| JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $7,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $7,000 |
| PARA LOS NINOS | $6,000 |
| WEINBERG CENTER FOR ELDER JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| BEACON ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| LES TURNER ALS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNITED IN HARMONY | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LS | $5,000 |
| HENRY'S FORK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NSNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER4× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +53%
STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +125%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- PIPowerMyLearning Incone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -46%
- WCWEINBERG CENTER FOR ELDER JUSTICE THE HEBREW HOMEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- MAMAC ANGELS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peace First Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 145 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Jewish Center for Justice ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED IN HARMONY ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Big Sunday ↗
- Who funds BEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Center for Environmental Health ↗
- Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM YOUR WAY ↗
- Who funds Harvardwood ↗
- Who funds United Way of Franklin County Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Melvoin Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region — 2% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.