Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Meelia Family 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.
- $300k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Meelia Family 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; $5k 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 | 5 | $300k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $310k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $424k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $350k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $619k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $701k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $596k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $780k | 49% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School Inc | $1,010,100 | 9 | 3% |
| Saint Anselm College | $719,500 | 5 | 0% |
| St Francis House | $425,000 | 4 | n/a |
| College of Our Lady of the Elms | $382,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Health Horizons International Foundation Inc | $160,000 | 5 | 13% |
| Por Cristo Inc | $140,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Dana-Farber Inc | $102,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Francis House Inc | $101,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $100,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Meelia Family 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
How this is measured
About The Meelia Family Foundation
- How much does The Meelia Family Foundation give?
- The Meelia Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Meelia Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Health (16%), Religion (9%).
- Who are The Meelia Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School Inc ($1.0M), Saint Anselm College ($720k), St Francis House ($425k).
- Does The Meelia Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Meelia 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 Meelia Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund.
- Where is The Meelia Family Foundation based?
- The Meelia Family Foundation is based in MA.
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