· Private foundation
The Melaver Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| NONVIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL | $2,016 |
| B'NAI JESHURUN | $1,995 |
| GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK | $1,368 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $1,008 |
| SAVE THE BOUNDARY WATERS | $1,008 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $1,008 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA | $1,008 |
| CONGREGATION AGUDATH ACHIM | $550 |
| THE SENTENCING PROJECT | $504 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $504 |
| DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $504 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $504 |
| THE NETWORK LA RED | $504 |
| LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA GEORGIA CHAPTER INC | $504 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% 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 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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%
- ATAMERICAN TRADITIONS VOCAL COLLECTION INC3× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +67%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE5× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- TMTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INCone grant, 2022 · $184k · revenue -3%
- PFPHALAROPE FOUNDATION CO REBECCA H DENTone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -71%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
The Southern Center for Human Rights 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…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
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…
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…
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…
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,…
To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sentencing Project 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.
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 30 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Phalarope ↗
- Who funds PHALAROPE FOUNDATION CO REBECCA H DENT ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TRADITIONS VOCAL COLLECTION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds Be Present Inc ↗
- Who funds NON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE OF SAVANNAH GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARIS CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SISTERSONG INC ↗
- Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA GEORGIA CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROOTS ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organization 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.
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 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.