Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,109,254 to it, the largest being THE SPRAY FOUNDATION INC ($34,592,269). 7 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.
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared funders
- Dietz Family Foundation 1730-03-44portfolio match
- T B Murphy Foundation Charitable Trustportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $47k → $506k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE MELMARK CHARITABLE 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
THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 53% · 2018 56% · 2019 93% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
How long its funders stay
18% of THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $461k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- Dietz Family Foundation 1730-03-44portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- T B Murphy Foundation Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alfiero and Lucia Palestroni Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Area VII Physicians Review Organization Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dennis and Nancy Gershenson Family Foundatonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bastinelli Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spencer M Partrich Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard and Clare Lesser Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Karen W Miller & Barry H Miller Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Looking Above and Beyond Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abramson Family 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 MELMARK CHARITABLE 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Melmark Inc · exempt
- Melmark Services · exempt
- Melmark New England Inc · exempt
- Occupational Therapy Programs · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MELMARK CHARITABLE 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 THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,109,254 to it, the largest being THE SPRAY FOUNDATION INC ($34,592,269). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $35,109,254 in grants to THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- THE SPRAY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,592,269 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 14funders 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