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· Public charity
The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville
We exist to improve the lives of black and brown children in the southern sector of Dallas via economic stability, food security, and academic excellence.
$231k
Granted FY2025
7
Grants
2
Communities
$96k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2025 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$15,103
Median grant
2
States reached
$311k
Total assets
Largest grants
- North Texas Food Bank$95,737
- Kroger$64,257
- Girl Scouts of Netx$18,031
- Mercy Street$15,103
- Cowboys Golf Club$12,747
- Network of Community Mini$10,300
- Uplift Education$6,000
02The need
03
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 75% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 8 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
7
Total granted
$1.7M
$155k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+51%
+63%
Still filing today
63%
43%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Youth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationReligionOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NTNorth Texas Food Bank7× · 2019–2025 · $349k · revenue +49%
- TCThe Chocolate Mint Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $241k · revenue +192%
- GSGirl Scouts of Netx5× · 2021–2025 · $84k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- PFPepsiCo Foundationone grant, 2020 · $37k · revenue -6%
- BTBig Thought - Prtshp Donationone grant, 2019 · $30k
- UEUplift Educationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +63%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation Inc
To develop an influential community of service-minded leaders, connected by Coca-Cola, who positively shape the world.
Education
2
Yes Prep Public Schools Inc
YES Prep is a public charter school system for grades K-12 in Houston's underserved communities.
Education
3
Youthbuild Usa Inc
To create a world where all young people are seen for their potentialwith love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild…
Employment
4
Kipp Texas Inc
KIPP Texas Public Schools is an open-enrollment, free public charter school network of 57 schools with nearly 35,000 Pre-K - 12 students across the state. Together with our families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent…
Education
5
Teaching Matters Inc
Our mission is to close the opportunity gap of a radically unequal education system for underserved and historically marginalized children.
Education
6
College Summit Inc
Peerforward transforms the lives of low-income youth by connecting them to college and career.
Education
7
Counterpart International Inc
Helping people build better lives and more durable futures, community by community.
International
8
Great Mn Schools
Makes strategic investments in proven and promising schools, providing the expert guidance, funding resources to create a community of great schools.
Education
9
Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives…
Education
10
The McCombs School of Business
To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
Education
11
Financial Scholars Inc
Create a high school financial literacy program to combat poverty and wealth inequality.
Education
12
Kipp Chicago Schools
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Street and the most unlike its peers is Pepsico Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,352,613Youth Development$363,455Arts & Culture$55,000Community Improvement$44,030Education$25,000Religion$20,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas IncTX17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Chocolate Mint Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 271589053 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on The Chocolate Mint Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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