Skip to content
The Jane Howard Foundation Melanie Masino Trustee at a glance

· Private foundation

The Jane Howard Foundation Melanie Masino Trustee

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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$161kPhilanthropy$156kEducation$131kHuman Services$83kEmployment$50kScience & Tech$42kYouth Development$23kReligion$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ABILITYPATH$50,000
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 (FY17–19, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GAINES HOUSE: $5k → 17%THEA FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%THEA FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THEA FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%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.
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$294k · 9 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$294k
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%
+40%

Still filing today

44%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • SR
    SEEDING RECIPROCITY CO
    3× · 2020–2023 · $136k
  • OB
    ONE BLOCK AT A TIME
    2× · 2021–2022 · $43k
  • MA
    MID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM
    2× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE STANFORD FUND FOR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • SD
    STANFORD DEAN'S FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • WI
    WINDRIDER INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +40%
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
New Generation Inc

Usher in leadership & policies that make arkansas the best place to live, work, and raise a family.

Community Improvement
2
Arkansans for Education Reform Foundation
Education
3
Arkansas Nonprofit News Network

Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.

Arts & Culture
4
Arkansas Bankers Association Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc

The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
7
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.

Philanthropy
8
Arkansas Children's Research Institute

The vision of arkansas children's research institute is to be a leader in cutting-edge research that improves the health and well-being of children and their families. in support of this vision, arkansas children's research institute aims…

—
9
Arkansas Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired

The foundation's mission is to broaden and enhance educational and employment opportunities for persons with visual impairments.

Education
10
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…

Human Services
11
University of Central Ar Foundation Inc

The purpose of the university of central arkansas foundation, inc. is to further the goals of the university of central arkansas by securing and carefully managing private funds for the support of the university.

Education
12
Arkansas Humanities Council

The purpose of the arkansas humanities council is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in arkansas. to achieve its purpose, the council awards grants through a competitive application process to nonprofit…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Windrider Institute 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

11 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. 11 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEEDING RECIPROCITY CO: $136,142 · OtherSEEDING RECIPROCITY COTHE STANFORD FUND FOR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE STANFORD FUND FOR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATIONSTANFORD DEAN'S FUND: $50,000 · OtherSTANFORD DEAN'S FUNDONE BLOCK AT A TIME: $42,716 · OtherONE BLOCK AT A TIMEIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTH LITTLE ROCK FRIENDLY CHAPEL: $18,000 · OtherNORTH LITTLE ROCK FRIENDLY CHAPEL+7 more: $16,000 · OtherARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $155,500 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDA…MID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM: $41,500 · Arts & CultureMID AMERICA…WINDRIDER INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWINDRIDER I…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureABILITYPATH: $50,000 · EmploymentTHEA FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesGAINES HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationArkansas FIRST Incorporated: $10,000 · EducationARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthCOOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES & CLINIC: $2,000 · Health
Other$332,858Philanthropy$155,500Arts & Culture$67,500Employment$50,000Human Services$45,000Education$20,000Health$7,000

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 budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $155,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetABILITYPATH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM: $41,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHEA FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWINDRIDER INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas FIRST Incorporated: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGAINES HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ABILITYPATH ↗
  • Who funds MID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THEA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WINDRIDER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Arkansas FIRST Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds GAINES HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES & CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENT ARTS ↗

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.

Arkansas Community Fo…Morris Foundation IncMunro FoundationArvest FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Morris Foundation Inc · Munro Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Jane Howard Foundation Melanie Masino Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jane Howard Foundation Melanie Masino Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 24 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Jane Howard Foundation Melanie Masino Trustee’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home