New Haven, CT · Private foundation
Melville Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2024
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,850,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $131M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Melville Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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 | 53 | $12M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $13M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $12M | 49% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $8.8M | 51% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $7.8M | 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
Each grant at its grantee’s address, over the share of households in hardship around it.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership for Strong Communities | $4,372,785 | 5 | 78% |
| Urban Strategies Inc | $3,170,360 | 3 | 9% |
| Forge City Works Inc | $3,005,000 | 5 | 35% |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | $1,927,000 | 3 | 2% |
| National Low Income Housing Coalition | $1,925,000 | 5 | 6% |
| National Alliance to End Homelessness | $1,843,500 | 5 | 5% |
| The Urban Institute | $1,421,782 | 2 | 1% |
| National Public Radio Inc | $1,250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Funders Together to End Homelessnes | $1,225,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Center for Land Reform Inc Dba Center for Community Progress | $1,210,000 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 81 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Melville Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Project Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc
How this is measured
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About Melville Charitable Trust
- How much does Melville Charitable Trust give?
- Melville Charitable Trust reported 54 grants totaling $12,366,430 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Melville Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (46%), Community Improvement (8%), Public Benefit (7%).
- Who are Melville Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Partnership for Strong Communities ($4.4M), Urban Strategies Inc ($3.2M), Forge City Works Inc ($3.0M).
- Does Melville Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melville Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Melville Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, Liberty Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is Melville Charitable Trust based?
- Melville Charitable Trust is based in New Haven, CT.
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