Tennessee · Private foundation
The Melkus Family Foundation
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.
- $7.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2024
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 70
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $61M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations The Melkus Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 74 | $7.1M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $5.2M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $4.2M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $4.9M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $4.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee INC | $3,850,000 | 4 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $2,400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Martha O'Bryan Center Inc | $1,733,519 | 4 | 2% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,325,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Belmont University | $989,184 | 1 | 0% |
| The Children's Aid Society | $962,476 | 5 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $950,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ancoratn Fka End Slavery Tennessee Inc | $850,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Sexual Assault Center | $825,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Tennessee Justice Center Inc | $805,000 | 5 | 9% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Melkus Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation
How this is measured
About The Melkus Family Foundation
- How much does The Melkus Family Foundation give?
- The Melkus Family Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $7,332,734 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 70 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Melkus Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (23%), Human Services (15%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are The Melkus Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: International Rescue Committee INC ($3.9M), City Harvest Inc ($2.4M), Martha O'Bryan Center Inc ($1.7M).
- Does The Melkus Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Melkus Family Foundation 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 Melkus Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation.
- Where is The Melkus Family Foundation based?
- The Melkus Family Foundation is based in TN.
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