· Private foundation
Ed & Ursula Meese Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Heritage Foundation | $1,000 |
| Council for National Policy | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +12%- YAYoung America's Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +50%
- ACAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR RELIGION AND DIPLOMACY INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -62%
- TIThe Independence Fund Incone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -5%
- LLLandmark Legal Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $1k
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the claremont institute is to restore the principles of the american founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY FOUNDATON ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Buckeye Institute ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN UNION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RELIGION AND DIPLOMACY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds RANGER ROAD ↗
- Who funds VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
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: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ed & Ursula Meese Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ed & Ursula Meese Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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