Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
The Mel Douglass Fund
The Mel Douglass Fund (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,250 to it, the largest being THE SIMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION U/A DTD 10/19/1999 ($8,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Mel Douglass Fund runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocal
- Ussga Memorial Fund Incportfolio match
- Fishes & Loaves Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
42% of The Mel Douglass Fund’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of The Mel Douglass Fund’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
The Mel Douglass Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 67% · 2019 67% · 2020 80% · 2021 60% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of The Mel Douglass Fund's grant income comes from Pennsylvania 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. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 148 organizations that share them.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you
- Ussga Memorial Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fishes & Loaves Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tyler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cgw Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Foundation for Educational Advancementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Linda & Fred Port Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard A & Helene M Monaghan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Student Clearinghouseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keith and Deborah Wandell Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skechers Foundationportfolio 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 The Mel Douglass Fund
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Mel Douglass Fund: 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 The Mel Douglass Fund?
- The Mel Douglass Fund (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,250 to it, the largest being THE SIMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION U/A DTD 10/19/1999 ($8,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Mel Douglass Fund have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,250 in grants to The Mel Douglass Fund, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Mel Douglass Fund?
- THE SIMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION U/A DTD 10/19/1999 is the largest funder on record, with $8,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Mel Douglass Fund 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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