· Private foundation
The Melsness Family 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 $10k5 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $294k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE SPIRIT | $101,241 |
| WATSONS CHILDRENS SHELTER | $50,000 |
| GIG HARBOR KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL | $40,000 |
| VINE MAPLE PLACE | $40,000 |
| PROJECT 150 | $40,000 |
| SOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION | $34,000 |
| FOOD AND BACKPACKS 4 KIDS | $25,000 |
| CARING FOR KIDS | $25,000 |
| SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| STEP BY STEP | $12,500 |
| THE COFFEE OASIS | $12,500 |
| COMPASSION WASHINGTON | $12,500 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $12,500 |
| SIBLING STRONG | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $545k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSONE SPIRIT9× · 2017–2025 · $374k · revenue +266%
- SPStevensville Pantry Partners Food Bank8× · 2017–2024 · $184k · revenue +220%
- SSSOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +461%
- HCHOPES CLOSETone grant, 2022 · $5k
- 4C4C COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Kids against hunger bay areas' mission is to feed starving children, and to empower kids, teens and adults to be part of the solution. we do this by using volunteers to package and ship highly nutritious, life-saving meals to areas facing…
The Food Bank of Northern Nevada, Inc.s (Food Banks) mission is Feeding the hungry today and solving hunger for tomorrow through community partnership. The Food Banks vision is Healthy Food. Every Person, Every Day.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry. We are dedicated to eliminating hunger in Alaska by obtaining and providing food to partner agencies and through anti-hunger leadership.
Food for hope's mission is to empower and strengthen the future of their communities by providing nutritious food to children in need.
Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.
All children and families deserve to live free from hunger and poverty. we're going to make that happen. we're helping communities feed children with our no kid hungry campaign and addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty. it's a…
Americas Kids Belong works to dramatically improve the experiences and outcomes of kids in foster care so they can thrive in safe,loving families, supported by Foster Friendly communities where they belong.
The Organization's mission is to feed hungry people by soliciting and judiciously distribution food and grocery products and to educate the public about the nature of and solutions to the problems of hunger.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 52 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 ONE SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds Stevensville Pantry Partners Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 150 ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Compassion Washington ↗
- Who funds THE COFFEE OASIS ↗
- Who funds STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AID ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
- Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds HopeSparks ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Seattle Area Youth for Christ ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds SIBLING STRONG ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN BRIDGES KID COUNTRY DAY CARE INC ↗
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: Woodworth Family Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Multicare Health System · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Nehemiah Ventures · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Melsness Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Melsness Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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