· Private foundation
The Melville 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $403k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $913,275 |
| UVA HEALTH SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT | $256,186 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS | $203,182 |
| LOST TREE CHAPEL | $50,000 |
| HETERODOX ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| LOST TREE VILLIAGE CHARITABLE FOUND | $50,000 |
| KENT SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| THE JEFFERSON TRUST (DUNCAN BURN) | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY | $25,000 |
| DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS | $25,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION (MEN T | $25,000 |
| KENT DENVER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
100 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +42%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $355k · revenue +74%
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $347k · revenue +94%
Funded once
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $170k · revenue +10%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OUTRone grant, 2022 · $100k
- USUnited States Ski Team Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +82%
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.
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 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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
How this is measured
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 148 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.
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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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Charles Fund Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Caplin Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · The Genan Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Manning Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Melville Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Melville Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
- New England Dance Theater Inc: 5% of income from government
- Squash Haven Inc: 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
- St Anne's Episcopal School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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