California · Private foundation
The Melanson 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.
- $60k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations The Melanson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 | 20 | $60k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $79k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $80k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $63k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $68k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $55k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $51k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $57k | 33% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collabria Care | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| One Mind | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Feeding Dreams Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Naples Zoo Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community School of Naples Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Homeboy Industries | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Immaculate Conception School | $15,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Prager University Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Timothy Catholic Church | $9,000 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($258k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Melanson 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: Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Klm Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Melanson Family Foundation
- How much does The Melanson Family Foundation give?
- The Melanson Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $59,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Melanson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (29%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are The Melanson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Collabria Care ($45k), One Mind ($40k), Feeding Dreams Inc ($40k).
- Does The Melanson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Melanson 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 Melanson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, Collier Community Foundation Inc, California Community Foundation.
- Where is The Melanson Family Foundation based?
- The Melanson Family Foundation is based in CA.
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