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Albert and Janice Meister Family Foundat
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $666k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND | $100,000 |
| WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSISTANCE PROJECT | $100,000 |
| FLIGHT PATH DANCE FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| FREEDOM TO READ FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISM | $60,500 |
| ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| 4PT0 SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| EAST BAY SPCA | $35,000 |
| ELECTRONIC FRONTEIR FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CITY REPORT | $25,000 |
| FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| KEEP OAKLAND BEAUTIFUL | $25,000 |
| CREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago3× · 2021–2023 · $410k · revenue +34%
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE2× · 2022–2023 · $260k · revenue +1%- FPFLIGHT PATH DANCE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $210k · revenue +221% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- UDUBS DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2021 · $265k
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +26%- TRTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNATION OF ACLU OF ILLINOISone grant, 2017 · $42k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND ↗
- Who funds FLIGHT PATH DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Freedom to Read Foundation ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SPCA ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds City Report Inc ↗
- Who funds Keep Oakland Beautiful ↗
- Who funds BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: John S and James L Knight Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Albert and Janice Meister Family Foundat funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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