Missouri · Private foundation
The Harold and Marilyn Melcher 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.
- $121k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,730
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $861k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $86k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $154k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $48k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $101k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $97k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $190k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $331k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $172k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayside Waifs Inc | $698,431 | 9 | 2% |
| Spay & Neuter Kansas City D/B/A Pet Resource Center of Kansas City | $142,026 | 7 | 1% |
| Pawsperity Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $35,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Schools3 | $35,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Planned Parenthood Great Plains | $29,626 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas City Pet Project | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Operation Breakthrough Inc | $20,103 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $16,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Build Inc | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Abe & Anna Bograd Memorial Trust 10030800 · Nerman Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
Compare The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation with peer funders
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About The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation
- How much does The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation give?
- The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $120,752 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (53%), Philanthropy (20%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wayside Waifs Inc ($698k), Spay & Neuter Kansas City D/B/A Pet Resource Center of Kansas City ($142k), Pawsperity Inc ($45k).
- Does The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Harold and Marilyn Melcher 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 Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation, Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation based?
- The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation is based in MO.
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