Texas · Public charity
The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation
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(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $222k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,103
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $95,737
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $311k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 | 7 | $222k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $279k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $307k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $344k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $223k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $416k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uplift Education | $798,844 | 7 | 0% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $349,370 | 7 | 0% |
| Chocolate Mint Foundation | $240,784 | 5 | 4% |
| Kroger | $96,769 | 2 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas | $83,936 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Thought | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lead Program in Business | $44,030 | 2 | 2% |
| Mercy Street | $38,735 | 3 | 1% |
| Pepsico Foundation Inc | $36,594 | 1 | 0% |
| Upfrom Inc | $22,800 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uplift Education | $798,844 | 7 | 0% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $349,370 | 7 | 0% |
| Chocolate Mint Foundation | $240,784 | 5 | 4% |
| Kroger | $96,769 | 2 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas | $83,936 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Thought | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lead Program in Business | $44,030 | 2 | 2% |
| Mercy Street | $38,735 | 3 | 1% |
| Pepsico Foundation Inc | $36,594 | 1 | 0% |
| Upfrom Inc | $22,800 | 1 | n/a |
| His Bridgebuilders Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Purposeful Apparel | $11,478 | 1 | n/a |
| Network of Community Ministries Inc | $10,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Shoppas Material Hand | $8,711 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation
- How much does The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation give?
- The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $222,175, out of $231,259 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Food & Nutrition (26%), Youth Development (22%).
- Who are The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Uplift Education ($799k), North Texas Food Bank ($349k), Chocolate Mint Foundation ($241k).
- Does The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rees-Jones Foundation, Hoblitzelle Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc.
- Where is The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation based?
- The Randolph W & Dr Lael C Melville Family Foundation is based in TX.
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