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THE MELAVER FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$53k
Granted FY2024
26
Grants
9
Communities
$36k
Largest
01What you fund
0163% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Arts & Culture$191kEnvironment$46kHealth$20kInternational$14kCrime & Legal$7kCivil Rights$5kAnimals$5kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$175k
02FY2024 · 26 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
$504
Median grant
9
States reached
$817k
Total assets
Largest grants
- MAOZ ISRAEL$36,000
- NONVIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL$2,016
- B'NAI JESHURUN$1,995
- GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK$1,368
- SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA$1,008
- SAVE THE BOUNDARY WATERS$1,008
- PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$1,008
- ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$1,008
- CONGREGATION AGUDATH ACHIM$550
- SISTERSONG$504
- DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$504
- EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$504
- LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA GEORGIA CHAPTER INC$504
- LITTLE CREEK FARM CONSERVANCY$504
- THE SENTENCING PROJECT$504
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 98% of THE MELAVER FOUNDATION INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 2% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
THE MELAVER FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$190k · 32 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
32
23
Total granted
$190k
$236k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+92%
+58%
Still filing today
47%
43%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentHealthOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TETENNESSEE ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL3× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +158%
- LALIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT5× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +141%
- BPBE PRESENT INC5× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TMTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $184k · revenue +50%
- PFPHALAROPE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -69%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHENgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +1417%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Global Voice
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Speak Up for the Poor
Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor. Our mission is to create a new reality for girls in poverty. We work toward this goal through educational programs support of safe homes and practical legal work.
International
3
World Pulse Voices
World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…
Human Services
4
Equality Now Inc
TO ACHIEVE LEGAL AND systemic change that ADDRESSES VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST women and girls around THE WORLD.
International
5
Women's Link Worldwide
A legal organization working to advance the rights of women, girls, and gender diverse people. We work on issues of reproductive rights, gender-based violence, climate, and racial justice in East Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the…
Civil Rights
6
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…
Human Services
7
LexCollective
LexCollective is a not-for-profit organization that addresses the most extreme forms of social, racial, economic, and environmental injustices around the world, such as mass atrocities, human trafficking, environmental destruction, and…
International
8
Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network
To protect and empower immigrant survivors of crime and persecution.
Crime & Legal
9
Global Echo Litigation Center Inc
The organization promotes social welfare by conducting research and providing legal services to affected communities and other stakeholders in order to end corporate violations of human rights and international law in areas of armed…
International
10
Southern Center for Human Rights
The Southern Center for Human Rights ("SCHR") is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…
Civil Rights
11
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide
Philanthropy
12
Women in Progress Inc
Women in Progress works to achieve the economic independence of African women and alleviate poverty at a grassroots level by creating jobs and income generation opportunities that provide women with a sustainable, living wage and at the…
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vera Institute of Justice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phalarope Foundation Co Rebecca H Dent. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
16%
9,180/58,269
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
05the grantee network
30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
26/30
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$190,808Other$186,515Environment$46,368Health$20,360International$14,196Crime & Legal$7,360Civil Rights$4,872
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PHALAROPE ↗
- Who funds PHALAROPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BE PRESENT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TRADITIONS COMPETITION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NONVIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHARIS CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds SISTERSONG INC ↗
- Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA GEORGIA CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROOTS ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE MELAVER FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF ROOTS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 453594189 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF ROOTS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Melaver Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Melaver Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines