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Form 990-PFTax year 2024EIN 87-0663843

Melling Family Foundation

A private foundation in Holladay, UT. Its return for tax year 2024 lists 20 grants and $137,000 paid in grants.

Tax year 2024 (period ending Dec 31, 2024), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Nancy N Melling
3081 Whitewater Dr
Holladay, UT 841211562
(801) 277-9118
Form and materials
Preliminary letter stating purpose of the organization and size of grant requested. Further information may be asked for.
Deadlines
June 1 - trustees meet once a year during the summer
Restrictions
No religious organizations or affiliations. We support environment, wildlife, women's health, education & low-income issues.

Assets and giving by year

5 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2024

    $137,000

    Grants listed
    20
    Assets, end of year
    $991,826
  • Tax year 2023

    $102,000

    Grants listed
    18
    Assets, end of year
    $1,036,440
  • Tax year 2022

    $74,000

    Grants listed
    18
    Assets, end of year
    $1,178,581
  • Tax year 2021

    $74,000

    Grants listed
    21
    Assets, end of year
    $1,262,342
  • Tax year 2020

    $61,000

    Grants listed
    19
    Assets, end of year
    $852,254

Grants paid in 2024

20 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Environmental Defense FundNew York, NY

    Support the work of supporting national environmental initiatives and programs benefiting air quality, water and habitat restoration.

    $20,000
  2. Natural Resources Defense CouncilNew 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.

    $20,000
  3. Ocean ConservancyWashington, DC

    Support the work of creating science-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it.

    $20,000
  4. Protect Democracy ProjectWashington, DC

    Support the mission to protect democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government.

    $20,000
  5. Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaNew York, NY

    Support the programs and work of ppfa, providing reproductive healthcare and services.

    $10,000
  6. Wildlife Rehabilitaion Center of Northern UtahFar 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
  7. African Wildlife FoundationWashington, 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 conservation and conservation enterprise to demonstrate that wildlife can be conserved while prople's well being is also improved.

    $4,000
  8. Big Life FoundationRidgefield, 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 elephants remaining in east africa.

    $4,000
  9. MadreNew 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.

    $4,000
  10. Utah Food BankS Salt Lake, 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 risk of missing a meal today.

    $4,000
  11. Wildlife Conservation NetworkSan 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 deliver rapid impact on the ground. The elephant crisis fund has but one goal: to end the ivory crisis. The elephant poaching crisis is now too large for any one organization or government to solve and requires a coalition that can tackle poaching, ivory trafficking and ivory demand. The role of the ecf is to quickly fund the most innovative and effective projects in these three areas across the coalition.

    $4,000
  12. Feeding AmericaSalt Lake City, UT

    Support the mission to end hunger in the united states.

    $3,000
  13. 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 habitat management in utah.

    $2,500
  14. Fourth Street ClinicSalt Lake Cty, 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
  15. Hawkwatch InternationalSalt Lake Cty, 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, by scientifically monitoring long-term trends in their populations and by working to promote conservation actions based on sound science.

    $2,000
  16. Save Our CanyonsCottonwd HTS, 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
  17. The Road HomeSalt Lake Cty, UT

    Support the mission of the road home of helping people step out of homelessness and back into the community.

    $2,000
  18. Utah Open LandsSalt Lake Cty, 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, government agencies and communities in the voluntary preservation of the agricultural, scenic, recreational, historic and wildlife values of open land.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, government agencies and communities in the voluntary preservation of the agricultural, scenic, recreational, historic and wildlife values of open land.

    $1,500
  19. Elephant Family USA IncNew York, NY

    Support protecting asian elephants and their habitat "we are committed to building landscapes that support human-wildlife coexistence."

    $1,000
  20. Tracy AviarySalt Lake City, UT

    To inspire curiosity and caring for birds and nature through education and conservation.

    $1,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Environment4 grants $61,50056% of the total
  2. Civil rights1 grant $20,00018% of the total
  3. Health2 grants $12,00011% of the total
  4. Animals4 grants $11,00010% of the total
  5. International aid1 grant $4,0004% of the total
  6. Human services1 grant $2,0002% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. District of Columbia5 grants $74,000
  2. Utah10 grants $30,000
  3. New York3 grants $25,000
  4. California1 grant $4,000
  5. Washington1 grant $4,000

Officers, directors and trustees

4 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • George D MellingTRUSTEE Hours 16Pay $0
  • Nancy N MellingTRUSTEE Hours 60Pay $0
  • Thomas G MellingTRUSTEE Hours 5Pay $0
  • Amy M ChristiansenTRUSTEE Hours 5Pay $0

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