How much does The Melaver Foundation Inc give?

The Melaver Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $52,657 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Melaver Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Environment (11%), Religion (9%).

Who are The Melaver Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Telfair Museum of Art Inc ($184k), Tennessee Environmental Council ($45k), Phalarope ($20k).

Does The Melaver Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Melaver Foundation Inc 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 Melaver Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.

Where is The Melaver Foundation Inc based?

The Melaver Foundation Inc is based in GA.

The Melaver Foundation Inc

The Melaver Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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.

$53k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$36k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$196kEnvironment$53kReligion$44kCivil Rights$31kHealth$24kPhilanthropy$20kAnimals$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0

02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $17k
$10k–50k1 grant · $36k

$504

Median grant

States reached

$792k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MAOZ ISRAEL	$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
LIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT	$504
PROJECT SOUTH THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF POVERTY & GENOCIDE	$504
THE NETWORK LA RED	$504
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE	$504
THE SENTENCING PROJECT	$504
LITTLE CREEK FARM CONSERVANCY	$504

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Melaver Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Melaver Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$193k · 33 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$193k

$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%

+23%

Still filing today

61%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth 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

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TENNESSEE ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
3× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +158%
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Phalarope
2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue ×11
AT
AMERICAN TRADITIONS VOCAL COLLECTION INC
3× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +67%

Funded once

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TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC
one grant, 2022 · $184k · revenue -3%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
PF
PHALAROPE FOUNDATION CO REBECCA H DENT
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -71%

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.

Southern Coalition for Social Justice

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…

Crime & Legal

Southern Center for Human Rights

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…

Civil Rights

Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

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'…

International

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

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

Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy

International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment

Human Rights Watch Inc

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,…

International

Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

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

Equality Now Inc

To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.

International

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sentencing Project; 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.

05the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

24/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$193,858Other$169,441Environment$50,376Health$20,360International$18,196Civil Rights$10,888Crime & Legal$7,360

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

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.

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.

ImpactassetsincMD11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home