Florida · Private foundation
The Melvin 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.
- $375k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 96%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of The Melvin Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $269,758
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 96% of the organizations The Melvin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $106k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $153k | 96% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $287k | 82% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $130k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $133k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $41k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Christian School | $260,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Monmouth College | $90,469 | 2 | 0% |
| Young America's Foundation | $82,793 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cross Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 66% |
| Crisis Pregnancy Center of Eastern Illinois | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Gary Emel Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 48% |
| Wirepoints Corp | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sullivan Community Education Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cato Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Christian School | $260,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Monmouth College | $90,469 | 2 | 0% |
| Young America's Foundation | $82,793 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cross Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 66% |
| Crisis Pregnancy Center of Eastern Illinois | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Gary Emel Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 48% |
| Wirepoints Corp | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sullivan Community Education Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cato Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Easter Seals Dupage & the Fox Valley Region | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Charity Global Inc | $1,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Camp New Hope Inc | $800 | 1 | 0% |
| Graham Hospital Foundation Incorporated | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wesley Village | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pleasant Grove Baptist Church | $200 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Melvin Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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: Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Melvin Family Foundation
- How much does The Melvin Family Foundation give?
- The Melvin Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $375,458 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Melvin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (51%), Education (22%), Religion (8%).
- Who are The Melvin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Arthur Christian School ($260k), Monmouth College ($90k), Young America's Foundation ($83k).
- Does The Melvin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 96% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Melvin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Melvin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Melvin Family Foundation based?
- The Melvin Family Foundation is based in FL.
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