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Miriam K Melrod & Leonard Melrod Family Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Miriam K Melrod & Leonard Melrod Family Charitable Foundation 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.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$141kHousing & Shelter$79kEducation$76kFood & Nutrition$20kHealth$19kReligion$15kArts & Culture$13kCommunity Improvement$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION$30,000
DON BOSCO CRISTO REY$11,000
CHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES$5,000
THE POWER OF PINK$2,500
FDN FOR THE ALEXANDER$1,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL$1,000
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 (FY17–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $500 → 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

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$258k · 14 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
50

Total granted

$258k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+15%

Still filing today

71%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • Elon University
    3× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +25%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +110%
  • FP
    Friendship Place
    3× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • MS
    MAIN STREET
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • DB
    DON BOSCO SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -8%
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
Miriam's Kitchen

To end chronic homelessness in washington, dc. the organization advocates for permanent supportive housing as a long-term solution, while meeting short-term needs by providing healthy meals and high-quality social services to the…

Human Services
2
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
3
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
4
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…

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5
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
6
Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…

Education
7
Meals On Wheels of Central Marylandinc

Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…

Food & Nutrition
8
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
9
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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10
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Woodley House Inc

Woodley house enables district of columbia residents with mental health disorders to live full and healthy lives with dignity by providing supportive housing and services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

39 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. 39 of the 70 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
25/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION: $90,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONMEALS ON WHEELS: $13,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSMAIN STREET: $12,000 · OtherMAIN STREETDON BOSCO CRISTO REY: $11,000 · OtherDON BOSCO SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $7,500 · Other+41 more: $73,600 · Other+41 moreMAIN STREET CONNECT INC: $56,000 · Housing & ShelterMAIN STREET CONNEC…Friendship Place: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterFriendship Place+2 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterElon University: $45,000 · EducationElon UniversityCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLE…CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $4,500 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLE…BULLIS SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $50,400 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FE…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,000 · HealthBREAST CARE FOR WASHINGTON: $2,000 · HealthMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $1,250 · HealthRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $1,250 · HealthAbortion Care for Tennessee: $1,250 · HealthCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $500 · HealthPROJECT ALS INC: $500 · HealthThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHUNGRY FOR MUSIC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE ORCHESTRA INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureROLLS-ROYCE FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE SWEET STUFF FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,000 · InternationalREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,500 · International
Other$207,600Housing & Shelter$69,500Education$67,000Philanthropy$51,400Health$11,750Arts & Culture$9,500International$8,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAIN STREET CONNECT INC: $56,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $50,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetElon University: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Place: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBULLIS SCHOOL: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLEY CATS AND ANGELS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHUNGRY FOR MUSIC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CARE FOR WASHINGTON: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbortion Care for Tennessee: $1,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE ORCHESTRA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROLLS-ROYCE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SWEET STUFF FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD: $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Community Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Miriam K Melrod & Leonard Melrod Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miriam K Melrod & Leonard Melrod Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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