· Private foundation
The Melmon 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCSF | $10,000 |
| Eastside College Preparatory School | $10,000 |
| Nature Conservancy | $3,000 |
| Dominican University | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Hidden Villa | $1,000 |
| Jobtrain | $1,000 |
| POST | $500 |
| San Francisco State Poetry Center | $500 |
| Music in the Schools | $300 |
| KQED | $300 |
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +114%
- TBTHE BUSH SCHOOL5× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +80%
- TFTRUST FOR HIDDEN VILLA6× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- ECEastside College Prepone grant, 2017 · $19k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- KKARAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +52%
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.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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…
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 53 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.
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR HIDDEN VILLA ↗
- Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds KARA ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Music in the Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds AVENIDAS ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR MINORS INC ↗
- Who funds JUST READ ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Atkinson Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Stanford Health Care · Floyd Family Foundation · Embarcadero Media Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Melmon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Melmon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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