Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MELMARK INC
MELMARK INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,071,354 to it, the largest being THE DAVENPORT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $144M
What Melmark Inc does
Mission
Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. Melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families by providing exceptional evidence-based and applied behavioral analytic services. A full range of community and campus based residential, educational, pre-vocational, and vocational services are provided, in addition to 24-hour nursing care, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral support and psychological services. Individuals served range from preschool to geriatric with many levels of intellectual, behavioral and physical challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult residential services (berwyn, pa): melmark's adult services offers a full range of attractive, community-based and on-campus residential options. Our comprehensive resources meet the unique residential and clinical needs of those entrusted to our care, including: adults with medical fragility who may require 24-hour nursing care, individuals who need significant-to-moderate support for their daily living needs, and adults who can live relatively independently in the community with 24-hour staff assistance. Whether living in a campus residence or a community-based setting, all of the adults served by melmark have regular access to health, social and recreational services designed to promote confidence, independence and community integration. The census at the end of the fiscal year was 111 residents.
$27,565,207 spent$31,676,412 earned by the program42% of program spending(expenses: $13,509,015 including grants of )(revenue: $14,916,045) melmark school (berwyn, pa): the school is an approved private school licensed by the pa department of education that serves children and adolescents ages 5 to 22. The education program focuses on the needs of students with learning difficulties and challenging behaviors secondary to a broad range of intellectual disabilities, including autism, brain injuries and other genetic and neurological disorders. At the end of the fiscal year, 116 children were enrolled at the school. The school program is defined by its collaborative clinical service delivery model, incorporating the principles of applied behavior analysis (aba) into an individualized learning model. The school's educational and clinical program includes the empirically supported features of applied behavioral analysis. Speech-language, occupational, and physical therapists work side-by-side with classroom teachers, facilitating the extension of these important services. For the highest level of quality and consistency, teachers and ancillary clinical staff receive close supervision and support from middle- and senior-level clinical staff. The school's…
$13,509,015 spent$14,916,045 earned by the program21% of program spendingResidential treatment facility (berwyn, pa): residential treatment facility (rtf) - melmark pennsylvania's residential treatment facility (rtf) specializes in the assessment and treatment of severe and treatment-resistant challenging behavior for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and other intellectual and developmental disabilities. The goal of the rtf is to help each child attain the highest level of personal growth, achievement, and independence by decreasing challenging behaviors and facilitating the reunification of the individual with their family in a less restrictive environment. Residential homes are located on melmark's campus. At the end of the fiscal year the program census was 35 children.
$11,940,859 spent$14,705,377 earned by the program18% of program spendingAdult day programs (berwyn, pa): melmark's adult day services provides day programming for over 174 individuals with moderate-to-profound intellectual and physical disabilities. Programs emphasize pre-vocational, wellness, daily living, social, and communication skills. Community inclusion is a key goal of the program. Enrichment activities include: volunteer support for local churches and charities environmentally-friendly recycling projects field trips to local shopping, recreational and cultural centers a variety of work assignments and participation in special olympics. For adults with lower cognitive levels or who are non-ambulatory, the program offers: multi-sensory stimulation, hand-over-hand training to teach functional life skills and provide personal assistance. Adult day community program follows a supported employment model (staff oversight and support) and addresses: vocational skills training (job sampling and shadowing), service learning, life skills training (safety, travel, personal finances, self-care), self-determination and decision making. The overall goal of the adult day community program is to assist each individual in identifying a job opportunity that…
$7,113,284 spent$7,748,205 earned by the program11% of program spendingChildren's residential services (berwyn, pa): melmark's residential program for children and young adults whose individualized education plan (iep) objectives require a 24-hour therapeutic and structured learning environment. All programming is focused based on applied behavioral analysis (aba), and adhere to the highest standard of residential care and supervised supportive services designed to meet each student's individual needs. During the past year enrollment totaled 17 children. Residential students actively take part in community-based social and recreational activities. Treatment activities follow a 24-hour learning model with a strong behavioral focus. All treatment components are put in place to ensure significant, measurable outcomes for all individuals served. Family reunification is an essential goal for all residential students. Parent support and training is a component of all programming in an effort to learn and replicate the same routines within their family home.
$5,233,394 spent$5,942,278 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $65,361,759.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $98M to $140M (+43%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of MELMARK INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $25k → $227k.
15 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Melmark Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MELMARK INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MELMARK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
MELMARK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 MELMARK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 79% · 2019 39% · 2020 49% · 2021 78% · 2022 35% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
35% of MELMARK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of MELMARK INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $971k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
MELMARK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MELMARK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.1M on record.
- DE$10.2M
- CT$2.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MELMARK INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Melmark Investments LLC · disregarded
- Melmark New England Inc · exempt
- Melmark Services · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MELMARK INC?
- MELMARK INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,071,354 to it, the largest being THE DAVENPORT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MELMARK INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,071,354 in grants to MELMARK INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MELMARK INC?
- THE DAVENPORT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MELMARK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 37 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