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The Melanson Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
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.

Education$197kHealth$163kFood & Nutrition$49kAnimals$32kHuman Services$22kYouth Development$21kReligion$21kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDING DREAMS$10,000
NAPLES ZOO$10,000
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES$10,000
MOUNT ST MARYS UNIVERSITY$5,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$5,000
IMMACUATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL$3,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$2,000
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES$2,000
THE SAN CAROS SCHOOL$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN HOSPITAL$1,000
ST FRANCIS CENTER$1,000
ST MARTIN OF TOURS SCHOOL$1,000
CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPARD$1,000
ST TIMOTHY CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVING LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $1k → 8%COLLABRIA CARE: $15k → 9%COLLABRIA CARE: $10k → 9%COLLABRIA CARE: $5k → 9%COLLABRIA CARE: $5k → 9%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $1k → 10%COLLABRIA CARE: $5k → 9%COLLABRIA CARE: $5k → 9%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OR
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
TX
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$460k · 37 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
30

Total granted

$460k
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+14%

Still filing today

43%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CC
    COLLABRIA CARE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +40%
  • OM
    ONE MIND
    4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +100%
  • FD
    Feeding Dreams Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • IO
    IMHRO ONE MIND SET
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • SC
    SWFL CHILDREN CHARITY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • NC
    NAPA COMMUNITIES FIRE WISE FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
2
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
3
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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4
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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5
St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
6
St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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8
Wsnchs North Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
9
SantaFe Healthcare Inc

The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…

Health
10
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
11
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
12
Hospice of the Florida Keys Inc

To enable individuals to remain in their homes by supporting compassionate, effective, life-enhancing health and supportive services. at this time, hfk care corporation is inactive.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Bloom Project. 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

27 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. 27 of the 70 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL: $57,000 · OtherLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOLMT ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherMT ST MARY'S UNIVERSITYIMHRO ONE MIND SET: $20,000 · OtherIMHRO ONE MIND SETCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COU: $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUIMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherMOUNT ST MARYS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · Other+48 more: $171,500 · Other+48 moreONE MIND: $40,000 · HealthONE MINDST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CH…SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN…PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital: $3,000 · HealthPIH Health…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthCOLLABRIA CARE: $45,000 · Human ServicesCOLLABRIA …ST JOSEPH CENTER: $7,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH …+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesFeeding Dreams Inc: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC: $20,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationNAPLES ZOO INC: $30,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $17,000 · Youth Development
Other$338,500Health$55,000Human Services$54,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Education$36,000Animals$31,000Youth Development$17,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLLABRIA CARE: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONE MIND: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding Dreams Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $17,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Center: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bloom Project: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELVEDERE COVE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JAMES INN: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH GARDEN CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.7% 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 COLLABRIA CARE ↗
  • Who funds ONE MIND ↗
  • Who funds Feeding Dreams Inc ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St Francis Center ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ANN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Bloom Project ↗
  • Who funds PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗

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.

Carrie Estelle Doheny…Collier Community Fou…California Community …Morgan Stanley Global…Klm FoundationCatholic Community Fo…The Ahmanson Foundati…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…The Bessemer Giving F…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Carrie Estelle Doheny FoundationCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Melanson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Melanson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get 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 · 0–15%
    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 70 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.

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