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FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,612 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($26,987). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$385k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$68k
Net assets
$2.3M
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Frank Melville Memorial Foundation does

Program

  1. Operation of a public park and related maintenance of the park and historical structures in east setauket, new york

    $159,236 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($336k) Expenses 100 ($346k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 92 ($311k) Expenses 85 ($295k) Net assets 88 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 55 ($184k) Expenses 78 ($270k) Net assets 108 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 75 ($252k) Expenses 90 ($312k) Net assets 117 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 108 ($362k) Expenses 111 ($385k) Net assets 117 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 104 ($349k) Expenses 106 ($368k) Net assets 122 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 108 ($364k) Expenses 96 ($334k) Net assets 129 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 114 ($385k) Expenses 111 ($384k) Net assets 135 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (111)Net assets (135)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $1.9M (+21%).

$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed44441712139
Joined··+0+0+14+0+7+1
No longer listed··001565
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $500.

From the IRS filings of FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.

40%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

56% of FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
MD
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,612 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($26,987). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $67,612 in grants to FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,987 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing