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Charles a Meyers Private Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$43kReligion$21kHuman Services$17kFood & Nutrition$13kHousing & Shelter$11kEducation$11kHealth$11kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$142k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPE MAY CITY PROGRAMS$1,000
AMOS ADVENTURES -$1,000
LOWER TWP KIDS CHRISTMAS$750
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$500
BOYS-GIRLS CLUB OF$500
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ$395
HOLY REDEEMER$300
SALVATION ARMY$250
FAMILY PROMISE$250
ST JOHN NUEMAN CHURCH$200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $2k → 9%ATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%ATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 11%ATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 11%GOOD COUNSEL: $300 → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$156k · 34 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
14

Total granted

$156k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+1045%

Still filing today

18%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CAPE MAY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +71%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +97%
  • FAMILY PROMISE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +483%

Funded once

  • DF
    DREXEL FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3k
  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k
  • MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue ×11
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Promise of Cape May County

To provide shelter, meals and case management for homeless families, as well as aiding the families in finding a home , family services and training.

Human Services
2
Cape Atlantic Citizens Altering Stray Cats

Helps to save the lives of area cats and kittens through rescue, foster, trap-neuter return and by placing them in caring lifelong homes.

Philanthropy
3
Union City Feral Cat Committee

We place more cats in homes, 759 from 2020 to 2025, in spite of covid, spend more on vet care and cat food, more than $496,000, and feed more colonies (more than 70 each night, colonies, not cats) than any other Hudson County cat rescue…

Animals
4
All Saints Community Center

Operate the only transitional housing facility in Ocean County, a sober-living environment, to shelter and empower (counsel) eight people at a time. Open "Samaritan House" in June 2014. In 2025, still getting back to full capacity due to…

Religion
5
Capic-Cat Adoption and Pet Information Center

Capic rescues animals and gets them new homes and does tnr for the community as well as adopting animals, spay neuters returns, and helps owners who cannot afford medical help and vetting on their own We also feed hundreds of animals feral…

Animals
6
Family Promise of Southwest Nj

The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…

Human Services
7
Catholic Christmas Campaign Inc
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8
Nj Food & Clothing Rescue

The Mission is to help people in crisis, whether it is due to disasters like fires, homlessness, or personal economic situations. The organizaiton redistributes everyday necessities eg: food,clothing, personal hygiene, etc

Human Services
9
Community Medical Center

The organization, a not-for-profit acute care hospital serving the ocean county region, is committed to enhancing the overall health status of the community by providing the highest quality healthcare and related services including…

Health
10
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
11
The Branches Outreach

Provides services and programs for the relief for the poor, distressed, or underprivileged for the residents of cape may county, nj

Human Services
12
Cape May Community Food Closet Inc

Our mission is to fight hunger through the procurement and distribution of groceries to qualified and low-income people in cape may county, n.j.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kiwanis Club of Cape May. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 48 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOWER TWP KIDS CHRISTMAS: $29,015 · OtherLOWER TWP KIDS CHRISTMASIndividual grant recipient: $13,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKIWANIS CLUB OF CAPE MAY: $11,550 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB OF CAPE MAYVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $9,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINETHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CAPE MAY: $6,800 · OtherBOYS-GIRLS CLUB OF: $6,700 · OtherHOLY REDEEMER: $5,350 · OtherLT EDUC ASSOC: $5,250 · Other+34 more: $64,200 · Other+34 moreCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $5,525 · Food & NutritionATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $3,700 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesGOOD COUNSEL INC: $300 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE INC: $4,750 · Housing & ShelterAMO'S ADVENTURE LLC: $1,500 · Animals
Other$151,165Food & Nutrition$5,525Human Services$5,500Housing & Shelter$4,750Animals$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF CAPE MAY: $11,550 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CAPE MAY: $6,800 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $5,525 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $4,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMO'S ADVENTURE LLC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 KIWANIS CLUB OF CAPE MAY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CAPE MAY ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMO'S ADVENTURE LLC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charles a Meyers Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles a Meyers Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–40%
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.

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 48 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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