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The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
165
Grants FY2024
146
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$180,000
Organizations funded a year
33 to 146
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
25
Total assets, FY2024
$30M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsHealthCivil 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving160$5.5M21%
FY2023146$4.8M38%
FY2022114$3.4M35%
FY202185$1.9M26%
FY202083$1.7M51%
FY201960$1.5M52%
FY201834$1.2M53%
FY201733$549kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$3.6MHealth$2.6MInternational$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.7MCivil Rights$1.6MAnimals$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.5MEducation$1.2MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 243 grantees
All grantees of The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clean Air Task Force Inc$520,60041%
Earthjustice$515,60060%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$495,00031%
Christian Ministry Alliance$400,00018%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$375,00040%
Computer History Museum$355,00081%
NAMI National$340,00070%
Equal Justice Initiative$300,00060%
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression$280,00060%
Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association$275,00070%
Petsmart Charities Inc$265,00070%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$250,00050%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$250,00010%
Rainforest Trust$233,10070%
The Grey Muzzle Organization$220,00046%
Trevor Project Inc$205,00050%
International Rescue Committee INC$200,00030%
Ndn Collective Inc$200,00021%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$195,60030%
California Fire Foundation$177,50061%
Policylink$176,50050%
The Aopa Foundation Inc$175,00040%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$160,00030%
The Ocean Foundation$160,00080%
World Resources Institute$160,00040%
The Coral Reef Alliance$155,00071%
Covenant House California$150,00060%
Family Promise Inc$140,00031%
Meals on Wheels America$138,50050%
Bay Area Community Services Inc$135,00020%
United States Fund for Unicef$135,00050%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$132,50080%
Homeless Health Care Los Angeles$130,00021%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$125,00020%
Wildaid Inc$124,00080%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$120,80030%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$120,00040%
Abode Services$120,00020%
American Nurses Foundation Inc$120,00041%
American Immigration Council$119,00061%
Hiller Aviation Institute$115,00051%
WOMAN Inc$110,00063%
Maui Food Bank Inc$110,00021%
National Institute for Reproductive Health Inc$110,00022%
Pflag$110,00021%
Feeding San Diego$100,50020%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$100,00010%
Mercy Corps$100,00020%
American Indian College Fund$100,00010%
Best Friends Animal Society$100,00020%
Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence$100,00060%
The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation$100,00033%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$100,00010%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$99,00030%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$97,50030%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund$95,00022%
Zoological Society of San Diego$94,00080%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$94,00050%
Polaris Project$94,00080%
Givedirectly Inc$90,00020%
National Low Income Housing Coalition$90,00021%
San Diego Humane Society and Spca$89,00080%
American Academy of Arts & Sciences$89,00080%
350org$85,00021%
American Indian Science and Engineering Society$85,00030%
National Park Foundation$84,00070%
National Women's Law Center$84,00050%
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking$84,00070%
First Nations Development Institute$84,00050%
Ocean Conservancy$84,00060%
Nourish California$80,50052%
Center for Carbon Removal$80,00011%
Milpitas Food Pantry$80,000410%
Ps Arts$77,50081%
Inner-City Arts$77,50071%
Proliteracy Worldwide$75,00030%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$75,00010%
National Immigration Forum$74,00061%
Human Rights Foundation Inc$74,00050%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence$70,00011%
Acadia Center$70,00013%
Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism$69,00060%
School on Wheels Inc$67,50032%
Americas Kids Belong$67,50031%
Housing Matters$67,50030%
Orphan Foundation of America D/B/A Foster Care to Success Foundation$67,50030%
Bay Area Rescue Mission$67,50030%
Family Supportive Housing Inc$67,50031%
Prevent Child Abuse America$67,50030%
Opportunity Junction Inc$67,50031%
Homeward Bound of Marin$67,50030%
Institute for Free Speech$66,50051%
The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc$66,50050%
Center for Constitutional Rights$66,50050%
Girls Who Code Inc$65,00020%
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc$65,00020%
Louisiana Abortion Fund$64,00033%
American Psychiatric Association Foundation$64,00050%
Dogs on Deployment$60,00063%
World Central Kitchen Inc$60,00030%
The Jason Foundation Inc$60,00013%
Nurse-Family Partnership$60,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$60,00040%
Postpartum Support International$60,00011%
Youth Activism Project$60,000213%
Black Girls Code Inc$60,00021%
Preeclampsia Foundation Inc$60,00012%
Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project$50,00011%
Oakland Promise$50,00010%
Our Children's Trust$50,00021%
Share Equity$50,00011%
Defy Ventures Inc$50,00011%
Humane Society Silicon Valley$50,00010%
Building Futures$50,00011%
The Brigid Alliance Inc$50,00010%
Farmworker Justice Fund Inc$50,00021%
Making Waves Academy$50,00010%
Breakthrough T1d$50,00010%
International Institute of New England Inc$50,00010%
Friends of Hawaii Technology Academy$50,000110%
March for Our Lives Foundation$50,00011%
Last Prisoner Project$50,00012%
Earth Island Institute Inc$50,00020%
Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund$50,00011%
Pacific Birth Collective Incorporated$50,00014%
Refugees International Inc$50,00011%
Jail Guitar Doors$50,00021%
Americans for Immigrant Justice Inc F/K/A Fla Immigrant Advocacy Center$50,00011%
United Way of Florida Inc$50,00013%
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma$49,00030%
Iranian American Women Foundation$49,00034%
Charity Navigator$47,50030%
Pets In Need$45,50060%
Cal Fire Benevolent Foundation$45,00027%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$45,00010%
Reading Is Fundamental Inc$40,00020%
Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance$40,00010%
Mission Housing Development Corporation$40,00010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$40,00040%
National Harm Reduction Coalition$40,00010%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$40,00010%
Hack the Hood Inc$40,00024%
Rrrcomputer Inc$40,000142%
Amazon Watch Inc$40,00012%
American Rivers Inc$39,00020%
The Plastic Ocean Project Inc$39,000211%
Hope for China Dogs Rescue$39,000212%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$39,00020%
Los Angeles Education Partnership$39,00020%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc$39,00020%
Compton Junior Equestrians$39,0002n/a
International Cultic Studies Association Inc$38,00024%
Able Flight Inc$37,500314%
Ocean Discovery Institute$37,50040%
Climate Science Legal Defense Fund$35,00017%
Animal Place$35,00060%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$32,00010%
Miracle Messages$30,00013%
Help a Mother Out$30,00011%
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust$30,00010%
Goodpower Education Fund Inc$30,00021%
Harborcov Inc$30,00011%
Read and Feed$30,00013%
Women's Lunch Place Inc$30,00011%
TURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE$30,00021%
Maui Humane Society$30,00020%
Alameda County Homeless Action Center$30,00010%
As You Sow$30,00020%
National Center for Women and Information Technology$30,00010%
City Year Inc$25,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$25,00010%
The Sentencing Project$25,00010%
ALS Network$25,00010%
Valley Humane Society Inc$25,00014%
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$25,00010%
Direct Relief$25,00010%
Family Reach Foundation$25,00011%
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation$25,00010%
Beloved Asheville$25,00010%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$25,00010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$25,00010%
Kqed Inc$21,00040%
California Immigrant Policy Center$20,00011%
Spread the Vote Inc$20,00011%
First Book$20,00010%
Children's Hospital & Research Cntr Fndn$20,00010%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$20,00010%
Bob Baker Marionette Theater$20,00030%
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc$20,00010%
Mental Health America Inc$20,00020%
Innovators for Purpose Inc$20,00014%
La Casa de las Madres$20,00010%
African Wildlife Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Humanity for Horses$20,00010%
Homefirst Services of Santa Clara County$20,00010%
Pen American Center Inc$20,00010%
Yellowhammer Fund$20,00011%
Goodwill of Silicon Valley Inc$20,00010%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$20,00010%
Roxbury Stone House Inc$20,00010%
New Hampshire Catholic Charities$20,00010%
American Psychiatric Association$15,00020%
Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc$15,00020%
International Medical Corps$15,00010%
Amyloidosis Support Groups Inc$15,00022%
National Veterans Foundation Inc$15,00020%
YWCA New Hampshire$15,00011%
Fresh Start Sport Horses Inc$15,000110%
Humane Society of Pagosa Springs$12,50021%
Union Rescue Mission$12,50010%
National Alliance to End Homelessness$12,50010%
Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation$12,00030%
Asylum Access$10,00020%
Support the Enlisted Project Inc$10,00020%
Boston After School & Beyond Inc$10,00010%
American University$10,00010%
Blue Star Families Inc$10,00020%
Bonafide Inc$10,00011%
United Through Reading$10,00020%
Curepsp Inc$10,00010%
Upwardly Global$10,00020%
Southern California Public Radio$10,00020%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network$10,00010%
Marthas Kitchen$10,00022%
Los Altos Educational Foundation$10,00020%
Puente Learning Center$10,00020%
Community Partners International$10,00020%
Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen$10,00020%
Room to Read$10,00020%
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery$8,00020%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$8,00010%
Outdoor Afro$7,50010%
The Story of Stuff Project$5,50030%
Domestic Abuse Intervention Services Inc$5,00010%
Friends of Griffith Park$5,00013%
Soldiers' Angels$5,00010%
Museum Associates$5,00010%
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles$5,00010%
Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter Foundation$3,00020%
Maui Pono Foundation$3,00011%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Exhale to Inhale Inc$2,00011%
The Children's Health Fund$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClean Air Task Force Inc: $520,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEarthjustice: $515,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $495,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetChristian Ministry Alliance: $400,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $375,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetComputer History Museum: $355,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI National: $340,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: $280,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Los Angeles Zoological Association: $275,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPetsmart Charities Inc: $265,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRainforest Trust: $233,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Grey Muzzle Organization: $220,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $205,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNdn Collective Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $195,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Fire Foundation: $177,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPolicylink: $176,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Aopa Foundation Inc: $175,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $160,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Resources Institute: $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Coral Reef Alliance: $155,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCovenant House California: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise Inc: $140,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMeals on Wheels America: $138,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Community Services Inc: $135,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $132,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Health Care Los Angeles: $130,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWildaid Inc: $124,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $120,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAbode Services: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Nurses Foundation Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Immigration Council: $119,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHiller Aviation Institute: $115,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWOMAN Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetMaui Food Bank Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNational Institute for Reproductive Health Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPflag: $110,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFeeding San Diego: $100,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPalestine Children's Relief Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA31.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sunlight Giving · Marin Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc

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.

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About The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation

How much does The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation give?
The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation reported 165 grants totaling $5,624,082 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 146 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (16%), Health (12%), International (8%).
Who are The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Clean Air Task Force Inc ($521k), Earthjustice ($516k), Globalgiving Foundation Inc ($495k).
Does The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
Where is The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation based?
The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 281 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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