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Melling Family Foundation: 20 grants to organizations, $137,000 (tax year ended December 2024)
Melling Family Foundation, a private foundation in Holladay, UT, paid 20 grants to organizations totaling $137,000 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on August 26, 2025. The largest was $20,000 to Environmental Defense Fund in Washington, DC for support the work of supporting national environmental initiatives and programs benefiting air quality, water and habitat restoration..
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- EIN
- 870663843
- Based in
- Holladay, UT
- Assets
- $1,450,821
- Grants paid
- $137,000
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed August 26, 2025, IRS object ID 202542389349100409. It reported $137,000 in grants paid; 20 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund | Washington, DC | Support the work of supporting national environmental initiatives and programs benefiting air quality, water and habitat restoration. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | New York, NY | Support the mission of programs to safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends. | Environment | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Ocean Conservancy | Washington, DC | Support the work of creating science-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it. | Environment | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Protect Democracy Project | Washington, DC | Support the mission to protect democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | Washington, DC | Support the programs and work of ppfa, providing reproductive healthcare and services. | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wildlife Rehabilitaion Center of Northern Utah | Far West, UT | Support the mission: "through wildlife rehabilitation and education we will empower the community to engage in education and responsible stewardship of wildlife and habitat." | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| African Wildlife Foundation | Washington, DC | Support the mission of ensuring the wildlife and wildlands of africa will endure forever through increased scientific understanding of africa's extraordinary ecosystems and the use of community conser | Animal-related | $4,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Big Life Foundation | Ridgefield, WA | Support big life's mission is to protect and sustain the wildlife and habitats of the more than 1.6 million acres in the greater amboseli ecosystem, including one of the largest populations of elephan | $4,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Madre | New York, NY | Support the mission to advance women's human rights , working in partnership with community-based women's organizations in the area of economic and environmental justice. | International, foreign affairs and national security | $4,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Utah Food Bank | Salt Lake City, UT | Support utah food bank, which has operated under various names but has always remained true to our mission of fighting hunger statewide. 410,000 utahns, which equates to 1 in 8 individuals, are at ris | $4,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wildlife Conservation Network | San Francisco, CA | Support work to save elephants. the elephant crisis funda joint initiative of save the elephants and the wildlife conservation networkexists to fuel this coalition, encourage collaboration, and delive | Animal-related | $4,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Feeding America | Salt Lake City, UT | Support the mission to end hunger in the united states. | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Sageland Collaborative (wild Utah Project) | Salt Lake City, UT | Support for the mission to provide science-based strategies for wildlife and land conservation by providing conservation science research and mapping services with the aim of improving wildlife and ha | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Fourth Street Clinic | Salt Lake City, UT | Support the mission to help homeless utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing high quality health care and support services. | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hawkwatch International | Salt Lake City, UT | Support the vision of contributing to a greater public awareness of humanity's place in nature and of its responsibility to the rest of life by focusing on raptors as indicators of ecosystem health, b | Animal-related | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Save Our Canyons | Cottonwood Heights, UT | Support the effort to preserve all of the untouched natural areas of the central wasatch for the sake of wildlife, watershed, and for the health and well-being of the residents in the valley below. | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Road Home | Salt Lake City, UT | Support the mission of the road home of helping people step out of homelessness and back into the community. | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Utah Open Lands | Salt Lake City, UT | Support the mission to preserve and protect open space in order to maintain utah's natural heritage and quality of life for present and future generations through assisting private landowners, governm | $1,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Elephant Family USA Inc | New York, NY | Support protecting asian elephants and their habitat "we are committed to building landscapes that support human-wildlife coexistence." | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tracy Aviary | Salt Lake City, UT | To inspire curiosity and caring for birds and nature through education and conservation. | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Environment | $40,000 |
| Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $20,000 |
| Animal-related | $10,000 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $4,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| District of Columbia | $74,000 |
| Utah | $30,000 |
| New York | $25,000 |
| Washington | $4,000 |
| California | $4,000 |
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Updated August 26, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.