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The Mehlig Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$75k
Granted FY2019
34
Grants FY2019
32
Organizations funded FY2019
44%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$500
Largest grant, FY2019
$53,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 41
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
11
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 44% of the organizations The Mehlig Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyReligionOther
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
FY201932$73k44%
FY201819$11k74%
FY201741$25kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$54kReligion$15kHealth$11kEducation$8kHuman Services$6kInternational$4kSocial Science$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Global Celebration$4,1452n/a
Rolling Hills Covenant Church Rolling Hills Estates Ca$2,7002n/a
Prostate Cancer Foundation$1,9003n/a
Peninsula Committee Children's Hospital$1,50010%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$1,50020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00020%
Finca International Inc$75020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$75020%
Los Angeles Mission Inc$6002n/a
River Church of the South Bay$5431n/a
Show all 35 grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mehlig Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPeninsula Committee Children's Hospital: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFinca International Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Reason Foundation: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of the Night: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReignite Hope: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence Little Company of Mary Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEncounters Network a Ministry to the Nations: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLong Beach Rescue Mission: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Rescue Mission: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Midnight Mission: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Support Community South Bay: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Pro-Life Alliance Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Outreach Ministries Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Foot Forward Ltd: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHoward Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP Foundation: $25 over 1y, 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 27.

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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.

Oarsmen FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oarsmen Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Mehlig Family Foundation

How much does The Mehlig Family Foundation give?
The Mehlig Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $74,663 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Mehlig Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (48%), Religion (14%), Health (10%).
Who are The Mehlig Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Global Celebration ($4k), Rolling Hills Covenant Church Rolling Hills Estates Ca ($3k), Prostate Cancer Foundation ($2k).
Does The Mehlig Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mehlig 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 Mehlig Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oarsmen Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Mehlig Family Foundation based?
The Mehlig 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 71 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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