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The Melik-Baschkopf Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Melik-Baschkopf Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$205k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$600kPhilanthropy$225kAnimals$98kHuman Services$92kYouth Development$45kInternational$35kEducation$12kArts & Culture$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$25,000
AL'S ANGELS$25,000
ALPINE LEARNING GROUP INC$25,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$25,000
SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE$20,000
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND$15,000
PILOTS TO THE RESCUE$15,000
COBBLE HILL COMMUNITY FUND$15,000
NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION$10,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$10,000
FRIENDS SCHOOL OF PORTLAND$10,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMAN AZ INC$2,500
ROOTS & WINGS$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
PLAY FOR PINK$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 (FY20–25, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $35k → 9%ROOTS & WINGS: $3k → 4%THE JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY INC: $50k → 7%THE GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $30k → 9%ROOTS & WINGS: $3k → 4%THE GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $25k → 9%ROOTS & WINGS: $2k → 4%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 9%ROOTS & WINGS: $1k → 4%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 9%AL'S ANGELS INC: $60k → 9%AL'S ANGELS INC: $40k → 9%AL'S ANGELS: $25k → 9%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

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
AZ
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$1.0M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+51%

Still filing today

71%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & CultureYouth 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

  • AL
    ALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +4%
  • AA
    ALS ANGELS INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +29%
  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • JH
    JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +73%
  • PC
    PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • PT
    POSITIVE TAILS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +124%
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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
3
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
4
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
5
Boston Children's Network Specialty Physicians Inc

BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…

Health
6
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
7
Plainview Hospital

Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
8
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
9
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
10
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Positive Tails 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

19 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. 19 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COBBLE HILL COMMUNITY FUND: $115,000 · OtherCOBBLE HILL COMMUNITY FUNDGOLDEN LIGHTS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherGOLDEN LIGHTS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $35,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1DPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION: $25,000 · OtherPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION+11 more: $58,000 · Other+11 moreALS ANGELS INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesALS ANGELS INCGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND IN…JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NOR…+1 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $280,000 · EducationALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCA…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $87,500 · AnimalsPILOTS TO…POSITIVE TAILS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsPOSITIVE …SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · InternationalPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $25,000 · HealthADLER APHASIA CENTER: $2,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · Health
Other$383,000Human Services$303,000Education$281,000Animals$97,500Youth Development$45,000International$35,000Health$31,500

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 budgetALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $280,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetALS ANGELS INC: $125,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $87,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOSITIVE TAILS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNCJW (ARIZONA SECTION) INC: $8,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADLER APHASIA CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Pierce University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Columbia Bank Foundat…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Columbia Bank FoundationNJ13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbia Bank Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Family Connections Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Adler Aphasia Center: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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How do I get to The Melik-Baschkopf Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Melik-Baschkopf Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 31 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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