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The Melchiorre Family Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Melchiorre Family Charitable 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.

$241k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$27k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$502kHealth$260kYouth Development$120kFood & Nutrition$88kHuman Services$25kHousing & Shelter$20kCrime & Legal$18kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $197k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION$26,664
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO$25,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HI$20,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$20,000
ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY FOUNDATION$20,000
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$10,000
AMERICA HEART ASSOCIATION$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$10,000
CARING FOR FRIENDS$10,000
LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER$10,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$10,000
GRASSROOT SOCCER INC$6,000
A COMMUNITY CENTER ESTABLISHED BY THE SURGENT FAMI$5,000
RIDE HARD BREATHE EASY$5,000
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 (FY20–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%314 COMMUNITY INC: $5k → 8%NEW STORY INC: $20k → 13%314 COMMUNITY INC: $5k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $10k → 22%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

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
TN
SC
DC
GA
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$782k · 17 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$782k
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-10%

Still filing today

94%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionYouth 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

  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $135k · revenue +10%
  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +44%
  • ES
    ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • CO
    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • NS
    NEW STORY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -10%
  • SP
    SPARK PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -94%
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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
5
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is 314 Community Inc. 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 34 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $135,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $105,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $90,000 · EducationWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $66,664 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCOMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN: $100,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL…TEMPLE UNIVERSITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HI: $25,000 · OtherTEMPLE UNIVERSITY OF TH…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $20,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERIN…SPARK PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER - CYCLE FOR: $10,000 · OtherAMERICA HEART ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED: $18,043 · OtherLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DI…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $10,500 · OtherVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $47,500 · HealthVETRI FOUNDATI…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDR…MIB AGENTS INC: $10,000 · HealthMIB AGENTS INCLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $10,000 · HealthLIVING BEYOND …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthRIDE HARD BREATHE EASY: $5,000 · HealthTHE QUELL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsED SNIDER Y…GRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsGRASSROOT S…CARING FOR FRIENDS: $25,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance: $15,000 · Food & NutritionNEW STORY INC: $20,000 · Human Services314 Community Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Philanthropy
Education$476,664Other$213,543Health$137,500Recreation & Sports$106,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Human Services$40,000Philanthropy$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $66,664 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $47,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARING FOR FRIENDS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW STORY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED: $18,043 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPhilabundance: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARK PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget314 Community Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIB AGENTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDE HARD BREATHE EASY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUELL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Greater…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Morgan Stanley Global…Chubb Charitable Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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