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Avatar Meher Baba Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$123k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it funds
0149% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$456kCommunity Improvement$111kArts & Culture$60kHuman Services$51kHealth$18kEducation$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
$7,579
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEARTLAND CENTER$45,000
MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER$30,000
MEHER ARCHIVE COLLECTION$10,000
MEHER MOUNT$10,000
SHERIAR FOUNDATION INC$8,500
MEHERANA$7,579
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
ANN ANDREE MARIE MOREIGNE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 70% of grant dollars ($561k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($245k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MEHER MOUNT: $16k → 10%MEHERANA: $8k → 15%HEARTLAND CENTER: $45k → 15%MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER: $60k → 13%BELOVED ARCHIVES: $29k → 11%MEHER MOUNT: $12k → 10%AVATAR MEHER BABA HEARLAND CENTER: $10k → 15%MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER: $40k → 13%MEHER MOUNT: $10k → 10%AVATAR MEHER BABA HEARTLAND CENTER: $10k → 15%MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER: $35k → 13%MEHER MOUNT: $10k → 10%AVATAR MEHAR BABA HEARTLAND CENTER: $8k → 15%MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER: $30k → 13%MEHER MOUNT: $10k → 10%AVATAR MEHAR BABA HEARTLAND CENTER: $2k → 15%MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER: $30k → 13%MEHER MOUNT: $10k → 10%SHERIAR FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 13%MEHER MOUNT: $10k → 10%MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER: $20k → 13%MEHER MOUNT: $8k → 10%MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER: $14k → 13%SHERIAR FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 13%SHERIAR FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 13%SHERIAR FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 13%SHERIAR FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 13%SHERIAR FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 13%SHERIAR FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 13%SHERIAR FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 13%MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER: $6k → 13%SHERIAR FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Beyond the US: 30% of all-years giving ($245k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$245k · 70 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$724k · 16 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +132% since the first grant, against -43% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
1

Total granted

$724k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+132%
-43%

Still filing today

31%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MS
    MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $235k · revenue +146%
  • MM
    MEHER MOUNT CORP
    8× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +99%
  • SF
    SHERIAR FOUNDATION KRYNSKI
    9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • BA
    BELOVED ARCHIVES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue -43%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC: $235,000 · OtherMEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INCAVATAR MEHER BABA PPC TRUST: $134,508 · OtherAVATAR MEHER BABA PPC TRUSTMEHER MOUNT CORP: $85,413 · OtherMEHER MOUNT CORPSHERIAR FOUNDATION KRYNSKI: $79,000 · OtherSHERIAR FOUNDATION KRYNSKIHEARTLAND CENTER: $45,000 · OtherHEARTLAND CENTER+11 more: $118,416 · Other+11 moreMeher Archive Collective: $50,000 · ReligionMeher Archive C…AVATAR MEHER BABA HEARTLAND CE: $29,616 · ReligionAVATAR MEHER BA…BELOVED ARCHIVES INC: $29,000 · ReligionBELOVED ARCHIVE…
Other$697,337Religion$108,616

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC: $235,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetMEHER MOUNT CORP: $85,413 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetSHERIAR FOUNDATION KRYNSKI: $79,000 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetMeher Archive Collective: $50,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetAVATAR MEHER BABA HEARTLAND CE: $29,616 over 4y, 11% of budgetBELOVED ARCHIVES INC: $29,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMEHERANA: $7,579 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MEHER MOUNT CORP ↗
  • Who funds SHERIAR FOUNDATION KRYNSKI ↗
  • Who funds Meher Archive Collective ↗
  • Who funds AVATAR MEHER BABA HEARTLAND CE ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED ARCHIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds MEHERANA ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Avatar Meher Baba Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Avatar Meher Baba Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Avatar Meher Baba Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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