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Melvoin Foundation at a glance

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Melvoin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$205k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$216kHuman Services$122kCivil Rights$110kReligion$99kArts & Culture$91kHealth$87kInternational$83kEnvironment$62kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $140k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE SHIR TIKVA$20,000
THE STEPPINGSTONE FOIUNDATION$15,000
LAIST$10,000
EPIPHANY SCHOOL$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
UNITED IN HARMONY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BEACON ACADEMY$5,000
BIG SUNDAY$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LS$5,000
WEINBERG CENTER FOR ELDER JUSTICE$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MCCARTHY'S BROTHERS BOND: $3k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $6k → 14%SOTENI: $1k → 16%UNITED IN HARMONY: $5k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $5k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $5k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $5k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $30k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $2k → 14%CANAVAN FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%KARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 14%CANAVAN FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%NOTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $26k → 14%KARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $8k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $6k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $6k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $6k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $5k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 14%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $2k → 17%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $36 → 14%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT: $3k → 17%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $10k → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $8k → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $6k → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $5k → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
ID
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$955k · 87 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
30

Total granted

$955k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+9%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER
    4× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +53%
  • STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +125%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • PI
    PowerMyLearning Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -46%
  • WC
    WEINBERG CENTER FOR ELDER JUSTICE THE HEBREW HOME
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • MA
    MAC ANGELS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +14%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
7
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
12
Jewelers of America Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peace First Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/92
Grantees still filing
69/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $48,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherEPIPHANY SCHOOLBRENNEN CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $35,500 · OtherBRENNEN CENTER FOR JUSTICETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $34,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE LES TURNER ALS FOUNDATION: $30,150 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherTEMPLE SHIR TIKVA: $21,000 · OtherBig Sunday: $23,000 · Other+78 more: $255,081 · Other+78 moreNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $75,305 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE SENIOR…Jewish Center for Justice: $30,500 · Human ServicesJewish Center for …PARA LOS NINOS: $30,500 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOSUNITED IN HARMONY: $28,000 · Human ServicesUNITED IN HARMONY+6 more: $15,500 · Human Services+6 moreSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · EducationSTEPPINGSTONE F…BEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationBEACON ACADEMY …EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $10,500 · EducationEFFECTIVE VENTU…THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SC…Teach for America Inc: $9,000 · EducationTeach for Ameri…GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $9,000 · EducationGABRIELLA CHART…Harvardwood: $7,500 · Education+8 more: $21,410 · Education+8 moreFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of Chicago: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra: $2,900 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,850 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $64,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $2,500 · Civil RightsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $11,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ROOTS: $2,500 · International+1 more: $1,466 · InternationalCenter for Environmental Health: $12,500 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR THERAPY THROUGH THE ARTS: $5,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,150 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,100 · HealthCANCER CONNECTION INC: $2,500 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $2,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $1,500 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $1,200 · Health+4 more: $1,725 · Health
Other$566,731Human Services$179,805Education$152,410Arts & Culture$74,750Civil Rights$70,000International$44,966Health$33,675

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $75,305 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $64,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $34,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Center for Justice: $30,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $30,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY: $28,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sunday: $23,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $11,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDAISM YOUR WAY: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHarvardwood: $7,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUnited Way of Franklin County Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetPowerMyLearning Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYBODY DANCE LA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THERAPY THROUGH THE ARTS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAC ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Legacy Charter School: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CONNECTION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROOTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE FRANKLIN & HAMPSHIRE REGION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds JUDAISM YOUR WAY ↗
  • Who funds Harvardwood ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Franklin County Inc ↗
  • Who funds PowerMyLearning Inc ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Chicago Community…Combined Jewish Phila…California Community …Rockefeller Philanthr…Rosenthal Family Foun…The Rosalinde and Art…Morgan Stanley Global…The Rose Hills Founda…Polk Bros Foundation …
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Melvoin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvoin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 145 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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The camps
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