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Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation

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.

$792k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$780k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$1.0MPhilanthropy$886kHuman Services$315kFood & Nutrition$167kYouth Development$164kEducation$161kHousing & Shelter$146kArts & Culture$118kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $250k+1 grant · $780k
$780,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION THE JEROME AVENUE FUND$780,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION THE JEROME AVENUE FUND$12,142
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ECONOMIC COUNSIL HELPING OTHERS: $3k → 22%MESILLA VALLEY COMMUNITY OF HOPE: $3k → 23%DREAM TREE PROJECT: $18k → 18%ECONOMIC COUNSIL HELPING OTHERS: $3k → 22%MESILLA VALLEY COMMUNITY OF HOPE: $2k → 23%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE: $18k → 18%ECONOMIC COUNSIL HELPING OTHERS: $3k → 22%MESILLA VALLEY COMMUNITY OF HOPE: $2k → 23%THE COMING HOME CONNECTION: $24k → 12%ECONOMIC COUNCIL HELPING OTHERS: $3k → 22%ECONOMIC COUNSIL HELPING: $2k → 22%MESILLA VALLEY COMMUNITY OF HOPE: $2k → 23%DREAM TREE PROJECT: $3k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE: $3k → 18%YOIUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $3k → 14%DREAMTREE PROJECT: $3k → 18%YOIUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE: $2k → 18%MANDYS FARM: $2k → 14%THE COMING HOME CONNECTION: $4k → 12%YOIUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $2k → 14%THE COMING HOME CONNECTION: $3k → 12%YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $2k → 14%THE COMING HOME CONNECTION: $3k → 12%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE: $2k → 18%YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $2k → 14%YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $2k → 14%NEW MEXICO VETERANS INTEGRATION CTR: $12k → 14%DREAMTREE PROJECT: $2k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE: $2k → 18%NEW MEXICO VETERANS INTEGRATION CTR: $2k → 14%NEW MEXICO VETERANS INTEGRATION CTR: $2k → 14%DREAMTREE PROJECT: $2k → 18%NEW MEXICO VETERANS INTEGRATION CTR: $1k → 14%NEW MEXICO VETERANS INTEGRATION CTR: $1k → 14%THE COMING HOME CONNECTION: $2k → 12%CHILDRENS GRIEF CENTER OF NEW MEXICO IN: $4k → 14%CHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $2k → 14%THE FOOD DEPOT: $13k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $2k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $2k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
UT
CO
NM

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 85 repeat orgs$881k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

85 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 85 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
46

Total granted

$2.3M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+26%

Still filing today

80%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $792k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $675k · revenue +52%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +189%
  • GU
    GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $51k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROCKY MTN YOUTH CORPS
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS NM
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • HO
    HEART OF TAOS
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -57%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
2
New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness

To assist communities to create solutions to homelessness from prevention through permanent housing by using action, advocacy, and awareness.

Housing & Shelter
3
Casa Partners 4NMKIDS Inc

The casa program is a community-based program that recruits, trains and supports citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. the organization serves children in…

Civil Rights
4
New Mexico Dream Center of Albuquerque

New mexico dream center's mission is to restore the dreams of the hopeless, the helpless, the hurting and the broken. specifically, albuquerque new mexico has a huge gaping hole in services for homeless youth and trafficked minor children.…

Religion
5
New Mexico Housing & Community Development Corporation

The new mexico housing and community development corporation is successfully promoting the availability and quality of affordable housing for moderate and low income families throughout new mexico through the means of property…

Housing & Shelter
6
Leadership New Mexico

Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.

Arts & Culture
7
Casa Milagro

To provide permanent housing and stabilizing support services to people exiting homelessness and managing mental health challenges.

Human Services
8
La Casa Inc

Provide emergency shelter care for adult persons and their children who are victims of domestic violence, and educate the community about the problems related to domestic violence is all its forms.

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9
Northeastern New Mexico Educational Foundation Inc

To provide leadership, build partnerships and enable the innovation necessary to reestablish local food and energy production, strengthen educational systems and establish placemaking in our communities while promoting northeastern new…

Arts & Culture
10
El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe Inc

Mission is to promote, present and preserve hispanic arts & culture of nm. showcasing, encourging & supporting participation of hispanics in local arts economy; and presenting creative & cultural richness of our heritage, including arts &…

Arts & Culture
11
National Institute of Flamenco

The mission of nif is to preserve and promote flamenco's artistry, history, and culture by presenting the finest flamenco in the world and by educating the american family in this art form while emphasizing the positive influence of art on…

Arts & Culture
12
Bold Futures Nm

Bold futures nm leads policy change, research, place-based organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in new mexico. bold futures nm centers the lived experiences and expertise of those most impacted by an issue,…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taos Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Onaben. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEmergency Shelter & Support…Youth Development ProgramsChildren & Youth Support Or…Santa Fe Community Developm…Family Philanthropic Founda…Trauma-Informed Support Ser…Animal Rescue and SanctuaryVeterans Service Organizati…Professional Association Ad…Vulnerable Populations Supp…Native American Education &…Arts & Cultural InstitutionsNew Mexico Advocacy Organiz…Private Schools and Early C…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr14%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr14%52%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/86
the rest of the field
12%
503/4,255

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.

04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 134 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/86
Grantees still filing
71/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOSTON FOUNDATION THE JEROME AVENUE FUND — $792,142 · OtherTHE BOSTON FOUNDATION THE JEROME AVENUE FUNDTISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NY — $280,000 · OtherTISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NY+88 more — $706,200 · Other+88 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $675,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTE…TAOS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $31,000 · Health+3 more — $35,200 · HealthCOMING HOME CONNECTION — $34,800 · Human ServicesCOMING HOM…NEW MEXICO FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN — $31,000 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO…DREAM TREE PROJECT — $26,500 · Human ServicesDREAM TREE…ALBUQUERQUE HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $25,800 · Human ServicesALBUQUERQU…COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC — $25,300 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …THE FOOD DEPOT — $24,800 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD D…MANDY'S SPECIAL FARM — $24,000 · Human ServicesMANDY'S SP…YOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $18,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH SHEL…NEW MEXICO VETERANS INTEGRATION CENTERS — $18,000 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO…Many Mothers Inc — $12,800 · Human ServicesECONOMIC COUNCIL HELPING OTHERS INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $12,000 · Human Services+3 more — $20,900 · Human Services+3 moreGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC — $62,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOOKING WITH KIDS INC — $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE EARTH CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHWORKS — $9,100 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LIFE LINK — $8,100 · Youth DevelopmentGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC — $50,700 · PhilanthropyTHE TAOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $23,600 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,900 · PhilanthropyLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $13,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC — $24,100 · Arts & CultureEL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS INC — $21,800 · Arts & CultureTHE SANTA FE OPERA — $9,600 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $6,100 · Arts & CultureArtSMART — $5,500 · Arts & CultureSpanish Danzart Society — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $6,700 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO — $39,100 · EducationSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $12,500 · EducationPARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $10,500 · EducationSTREET FOOD INSTITUTE — $6,000 · EducationLiteracy Volunteers of Santa Fe — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $1,500 · Education
Other$1,778,342Health$741,200Human Services$286,400Youth Development$121,200Philanthropy$107,200Arts & Culture$77,800Education$74,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $675,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC — $62,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC — $50,700 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO — $39,100 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSOLACE SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES — $35,400 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOMING HOME CONNECTION — $34,800 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetTAOS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN — $31,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetDREAM TREE PROJECT — $26,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetALBUQUERQUE HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $25,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEsperanza Shelter Inc — $25,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC — $25,300 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT — $24,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC — $24,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHEN ANGELS INC — $24,100 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION — $24,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMANDY'S SPECIAL FARM — $24,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION FOR NEW MEXICO — $23,800 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TAOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $23,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS — $22,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOOKING WITH KIDS INC — $22,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetEL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS INC — $21,800 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE EARTH CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWORKS — $19,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MOUNTAIN REGION — $19,300 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $18,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNEW MEXICO VETERANS INTEGRATION CENTERS — $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $17,600 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC — $16,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN — $16,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE — $16,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW MEXICO — $15,200 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC — $14,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY — $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC — $13,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMany Mothers Inc — $12,800 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILIA MEDICAL CENTER — $12,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO MESA INC — $12,100 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetECONOMIC COUNCIL HELPING OTHERS INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO — $11,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTOREHOUSE NEW MEXICO — $11,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO KIDS MATTER INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $10,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNEW MEXICO BIOPARK SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget
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 CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO ↗
  • Who funds SOLACE SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds COMING HOME CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds TAOS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds DREAM TREE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ALBUQUERQUE HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Esperanza Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC ↗
  • Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MANDY'S SPECIAL FARM ↗
  • Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION FOR NEW MEXICO ↗
  • Who funds THE TAOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS ↗
  • Who funds COOKING WITH KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EARTH CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWORKS ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MOUNTAIN REGION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO VETERANS INTEGRATION CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW MEXICO ↗

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Albuquerque Community…Nusenda FoundationPnm Tnmp FoundationLineberry FoundationThornburg FoundationThe Frost FoundationAnchorum St VincentSt Vincent HospitalCon Alma Health Found…Carl C Anderson Sr an…The Abeles Foundation
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM107.8× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Lineberry Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · St Vincent Hospital · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Abeles Foundation

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 Nancy Ann Mellen 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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