· Public charity
Blue Meridian Partners Inc
Blue meridian partners (bmp) finds and funds scalable solutions to problems that trap america's youth and families in poverty and limit economic mobility.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $439k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $609k
- $250k+74 grants · $352M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $37,000,000 |
| GRAMEEN AMERICA | $22,365,600 |
| OAKLAND PROMISE | $21,816,000 |
| TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $18,000,000 |
| MERIT AMERICA | $15,500,000 |
| POLICYLINK | $14,800,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE | $12,925,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $12,470,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT | $11,420,000 |
| THE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP | $10,000,000 |
| NATIONAL DOMESTICE WORKERS ALLIANCE | $9,100,000 |
| VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC | $9,000,000 |
| DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION | $8,889,000 |
| PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC | $8,551,000 |
| UPSTREAM USA INC | $7,200,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $332.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Blue Meridian Partners Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
101 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 26 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19M 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
YOUTH VILLAGES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $117M · revenue +105%- NPNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP7× · 2018–2024 · $75M · revenue +11% · 55% of their budget
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $70M · revenue +44% · 98% of their budget
Funded once
GIVEDIRECTLY INCone grant, 2020 · $23M · revenue -32%- MAMISSION ASSET FUNDone grant, 2020 · $9.0M · revenue -77%
- NLNEW LEADERS INCone grant, 2019 · $7.5M · revenue -28%
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 each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
161 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. 161 of the 191 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 YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds CHIEFS FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds George Kaiser Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RESULTS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
- Who funds CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND PROMISE ↗
- Who funds StriveTogether Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Social Finance Inc ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds MERIT AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds WATERFORD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ZEARN ↗
- Who funds COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS DATA TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CODEPATHORG ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
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: Gates Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · The California Endowment · The James Irvine Foundation · Tides Foundation
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 Blue Meridian Partners Inc 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.
- Reach Riverside Development Corp — 100% of income from government
- National Institute for Children's Health Quality Inc — 100% of income from government
- Child Trends Inc — 50% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Newark Community Street Team Inc — 38% of income from government
- Saga Innovations Inc — 28% of income from government
- Social Finance Inc — 12% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Zearn — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.