Melissa Fishel Foundation Inc
Overview
Mission
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
What it reported funding in 2021
The foundation reported 1 grant totaling $74. The stated grant purpose was charitable.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this foundation funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133879107
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2010–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2021
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 11
- Transparency: NotEnoughData
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 6
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 11; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Limited
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Filing consistency checks: 7; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: Filed grants detail
- Payout: 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 6th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Filing history: 11 annual filings from 2010 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.