Illinois · Private foundation
D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation
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.
- $159k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 52
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $158k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $133k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $119k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $139k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $106k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $111k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoo Miami Foundation Inc | $27,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Chapman Partnership Inc | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Hand in Hand Lake County Inc | $16,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Real Life Church | $14,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Dona Vista Arts Inc | $13,500 | 4 | 45% |
| Better Way of Miami Inc | $13,031 | 6 | 0% |
| Union Congregational Church | $12,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Lake Cares Inc | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cashiers Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pink Butterfly Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($344k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · W T Bland Jr Charitable Tua · Albert H and Jane D Nahmad Foundation Inc · Harper Family Charitable Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · American Express Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
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About D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation
- How much does D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation give?
- D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $159,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 52 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (12%), Human Services (10%), Public Safety & Disaster (8%).
- Who are D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Zoo Miami Foundation Inc ($27k), Chapman Partnership Inc ($23k), Hand in Hand Lake County Inc ($16k).
- Does D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Batchelor Foundation Inc, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation.
- Where is D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation based?
- D Richard Mead Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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