New York · Nonprofit
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.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- The Marc Haas Foundation Inclocal
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.
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.
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
60% of FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marc Haas Foundation InclocalNY · funds 146 organizations near you
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kenny Jacob Rudin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Propp Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank & Victoria Rich Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edwin & Suzann Goldstein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing