Funding search · EIN 237059703 · Sarasota, FL

The Melly Foundation

Name: The Melly Foundation grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

190
grants reported: $4.0M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $2,250
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges5 grants · $1.2M
Mote Marine Laboratory7 grants · $479,300
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation5 grants · $405,000
Smith College3 grants · $299,167
First Presbyterian Church6 grants · $287,000
Hobart College2 grants · $250,250
The Salvation Army6 grants · $175,500
Trinity College9 grants · $169,606
The Hill School4 grants · $125,000
All Faiths Food Bank3 grants · $120,000

Giving over time

$722,500

2021

$1.1M

2022

$1.3M

2023

$953,241

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 190 grants.

$581,263
Hobart and William Smith Colleges · Geneva, NY · 2022
General/unrestricted
$504,513
Hobart and William Smith Colleges · Geneva, NY · 2023
General/unrestricted
$250,000
Hobart College · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$200,000
Mote Marine Laboratory · Sarasota, FL · 2023
General/unrestricted
$123,563
Trinity College · Hartford, CT · 2024
General/unrestricted
$100,000
All Faiths Food Bank · Sarasota, FL · 2024
General/unrestricted
$100,000
First Presbyterian Church · New York, NY · 2024
General/unrestricted
$100,000
Mote Marine Laboratory · Sarasota, FL · 2024
General/unrestricted
$100,000
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation · Sarasota, FL · 2024
General/unrestricted
$100,000
The Salvation Army · Alexandria, VA · 2024
General/unrestricted
$100,000
First Presbyterian Church · New York, NY · 2023
General/unrestricted
$100,000
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation · Sarasota, FL · 2023
General/unrestricted
$100,000
Smith College · Northampton, MA · 2023
General/unrestricted
$100,000
Mote Marine Laboratory · Sarasota, FL · 2022
General/unrestricted
$100,000
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation · Sarasota, FL · 2022
General/unrestricted
$100,000
Smith College · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$99,167
Smith College · Northampton, MA · 2024
General/unrestricted
$80,000
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$50,000
The Salvation Army · Alexandria, VA · 2023
General/unrestricted
$50,000
Mote Marine Laboratory · Sarasota, FL · 2022
General/unrestricted
$50,000
The Hill School · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$32,406
Hobart and William Smith Colleges · Geneva, NY · 2022
General/unrestricted
$30,000
First Presbyterian Church · New York, NY · 2023
General/unrestricted
$25,000
Hobart and William Smith Colleges · Geneva, NY · 2024
General/unrestricted
$25,000
The Hill School · Pottstown, PA · 2024
General/unrestricted
$25,000
The Hill School · Pottstown, PA · 2023
General/unrestricted
$25,000
First Presbyterian Church · New York, NY · 2022
General/unrestricted
$25,000
The Hill School · Pottstown, PA · 2022
General/unrestricted
$25,000
Mote Marine Laboratory · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$25,000
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$22,500
University of Victoria · 2024
General/unrestricted
$22,000
First Presbyterian Church · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$20,000
The Berry Center · New Castle, KY · 2024
General/unrestricted
$20,000
Kent School · Kent, CT · 2023
General/unrestricted
$20,000
University of Victoria · 2023
General/unrestricted
$20,000
Kent School · Kent, CT · 2022
General/unrestricted
$20,000
University of Victoria · 2022
General/unrestricted
$20,000
Kent School · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$19,868
Kent School · Kent, CT · 2024
General/unrestricted
$15,000
National Outdoor Leadership School · Lander, WY · 2022
General/unrestricted
$15,000
Bruce Museum · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$15,000
Vassar College · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$13,000
Hobart and William Smith Colleges · Geneva, NY · 2024
General/unrestricted
$13,000
Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine · Washington, DC · 2024
General/unrestricted
$11,000
National Outdoor Leadership School · Lander, WY · 2023
General/unrestricted
$10,043
Trinity College · Hartford, CT · 2024
General/unrestricted
$10,000
National Outdoor Leadership School · Lander, WY · 2024
General/unrestricted
$10,000
Parkinson'S Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General/unrestricted
$10,000
The Family Center · Greenwich, CT · 2024
General/unrestricted
$10,000
All Faiths Food Bank · Sarasota, FL · 2023
General/unrestricted
$10,000
Ekvn-Yefolecv Monkeloc Ecovillage · Weogufka, AL · 2023
General/unrestricted
$10,000
Parkinsons Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General/unrestricted
$10,000
The Berry Center · New Castle, KY · 2023
General/unrestricted
$10,000
The Family Center · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General/unrestricted
$10,000
The Salvation Army · Alexandria, VA · 2023
General/unrestricted
$10,000
Trinity College · Hartford, CT · 2023
General/unrestricted
$10,000
All Faiths Food Bank · Sarasota, FL · 2022
General/unrestricted
$10,000
Ekvn-Yefolecv Monkeloc Ecovillage · Weogufka, AL · 2022
General/unrestricted
$10,000
First Presbyterian Church · New York, NY · 2022
General/unrestricted
$10,000
The Berry Center · New Castle, KY · 2022
General/unrestricted
$10,000
The Family Center · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General/unrestricted
$10,000
The Salvation Army · Alexandria, VA · 2022
General/unrestricted
$10,000
Trinity College · Hartford, CT · 2022
General/unrestricted
$10,000
Family Center · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$10,000
New College Foundation · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$10,000
Ohio State University · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$10,000
One West 54th Street Foundation · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$10,000
The Berry Center · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$10,000
Trinity College · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$10,000
University of Victoria · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$5,000
Uja Federation of New York · New York, NY · 2023
General/unrestricted
$5,000
The Mill Reef Fund · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$5,000
The Salvation Army · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$4,000
Mote Marine Laboratory · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$3,500
Idaho Conservation League · Boise, ID · 2024
General/unrestricted
$3,500
Nature Conservancy of Idaho · Hailey, ID · 2024
General/unrestricted
$3,500
St Luke Wood River Foundation · Ketchum, ID · 2024
General/unrestricted
$3,500
Wood River Land Trust · Hailey, ID · 2024
General/unrestricted
$3,500
Idaho Conservation League · Boise, ID · 2023
General/unrestricted
$3,500
St Luke Wood River Foundation · Ketchum, ID · 2023
General/unrestricted
$3,500
The Nature Conservancy of Idaho · Hailey, ID · 2023
General/unrestricted
$3,500
Wood River Land Trust · Hailey, ID · 2023
General/unrestricted
$3,000
The Nature Conservancy of Idaho · Hailey, ID · 2022
General/unrestricted
$3,000
Wood River Land Trust · Hailey, ID · 2022
General/unrestricted
$3,000
The Nature Conservancy of Idaho · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$3,000
Wood River Land Trust · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$2,500
Deerfield · Asheville, NC · 2024
General/unrestricted
$2,500
Greenwich Country Day School · Greenwich, CT · 2024
General/unrestricted
$2,500
Kent School · Kent, CT · 2024
General/unrestricted
$2,500
Memorial Sloan Kettering · New York, NY · 2024
General/unrestricted
$2,500
St Paul'S Day School · Westfield, NJ · 2024
General/unrestricted
$2,500
Trinity College · Hartford, CT · 2024
General/unrestricted
$2,500
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024
General/unrestricted
$2,500
Kent School · Kent, CT · 2023
General/unrestricted
$2,500
The Heritage Foundation · Sarasota, FL · 2021
General/unrestricted
$2,000
Capital Research Center · Washington, DC · 2024
General/unrestricted
$2,000
Deerfield · Asheville, NC · 2024
General/unrestricted
$2,000
Family Centers · Greenwich, CT · 2024
General/unrestricted
$2,000
Capital Research Center · Washington, DC · 2023
General/unrestricted
$2,000
Deerfield · Asheville, NC · 2023
General/unrestricted

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