· Private foundation
The Mellor Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Brigham Young University | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,661 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,315 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,178 |
| Utah Valley University | $5,000 |
| Alpine School District Foundation | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,575 |
| Eli & Hina Faleomavaega Foundation | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Sape Foundation | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Caveman Rugby Club | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BYBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2025 · $118k
- TJTEAM JUDE FUND2× · 2021–2022 · $69k
- MHMENTAL HEALTH FOR HEROS2× · 2021–2022 · $64k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $33k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
- EMEmpower Mali Schoolone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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.
To provide athletic and academic opportunities for underprivileged youth.
To establish a school where each student gains the scholarly knowledge and skills vital to becoming a self-motivated, lifelong learner and to succeed in the rapidly evolving and complex world. This mission will be accomplished by using the…
To provide educaitonal services to students in the Salt Lake County area as a public charter school, to support education initiatives, and to help prepare students to be successful in life by developing healthy lifestyle habits abd by…
Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.
None
To promote student success in the Salt Lake City School District by using private donations to supplement children's educational experiences.
Our mission is to train develop and allow to compete student athletes while experiencing the cultural benefits of training and competing internationally and domestically.
The mission of the Weber School Foundation is to raise and provide funds to enhance educational goals and opportunities for students.
La Roca Futbol Club believes in developing and showcasing youth soccer players at all ages and levels of play, from local recreation leagues to the highest levels of competition in the state, regional and national platforms. Spanish for…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 94 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mellor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mellor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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