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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $572k
What The Mel Douglass Fund does
Mission
Awards scholarships to graduating high school students attending college
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Scholarships awarded to graduating high school seniors
$39,522 spentof which $36,500 as grants$61,366 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $39,522.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $469k to $572k (+22%).
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 (57% 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
54% 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.
Against its field
The Mel Douglass Fund runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Mel Douglass Fund
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
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.
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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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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