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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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Public Benefit$61kCivil Rights$42kEducation$36kArts & Culture$15kInternational$7kPhilanthropy$7kHuman Services$7kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Heritage Foundation$1,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$1,000
Council for National Policy$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Boys Town: $100 → 12%Ranger Road Veteran Non Profit: $1k → 12%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%American Red Cross: $500 → 14%American Red Cross: $400 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$177k · 34 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
7

Total granted

$177k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+9%

Still filing today

68%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +12%
  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +50%
  • CB
    CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN
    7× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR RELIGION AND DIPLOMACY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -34%
  • TI
    The Independence Fund Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -5%
  • RR
    RANGER ROADgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +102%

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

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

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.

2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

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,…

International
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
5
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

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…

Social Science
6
Augustana College

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…

Education
7
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education
8
American Law Institute

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…

Crime & Legal
9
Furman University

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.

Education
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy

The mission of the claremont institute is to restore the principles of the american founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.

12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyGovernment Accountability R…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Christian Missionary Organi…Child and Family ServicesJewish Community FederationsEducation Equity LeadershipVeteran Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,535

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.

04the grantee network

30 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Young America's Foundation — $30,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE — $7,000 · OtherFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGEMercatus Center at GMU — $6,000 · OtherMercatus Center at GMUWilliam F Buckley Jr (Yale) — $6,000 · OtherWilliam F Buckley Jr (Yale)The International Foundation — $5,100 · OtherThe International FoundationTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $4,100 · OtherThe Buckeye Institute — $3,000 · OtherMedia Research Center — $3,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN UNION INC — $3,000 · Other+13 more — $14,300 · Other+13 moreTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $31,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY — $7,000 · Public BenefitCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICYTHE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY FOUNDATON — $6,000 · Public BenefitTHE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY FOUNDA…Leadership Institute — $3,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute+1 more — $1,000 · Public BenefitCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN — $11,000 · Arts & CultureCLARE BOOTHE…AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $8,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COU…VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $900 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE — $700 · Arts & CultureTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE — $6,000 · EducationTHE RONALD …INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC — $4,500 · EducationINTERCOLLEG…THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE — $4,000 · EducationTHE STEAMBO…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,000 · EducationHILLSDALE C…ASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationASHLAND UNI…+1 more — $120 · EducationTRINITY FORUM INC — $7,000 · PhilanthropyALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $6,000 · Civil RightsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,900 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesRANGER ROAD — $1,000 · Human Services+1 more — $100 · Human Services
Other$81,500Public Benefit$48,000Arts & Culture$20,600Education$19,620Philanthropy$7,000Civil Rights$6,000Human Services$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN — $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY FORUM INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE — $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY FOUNDATON — $6,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC — $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $4,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE — $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN UNION INC — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute — $3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR RELIGION AND DIPLOMACY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANGER ROAD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE — $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE — $100 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation
  • Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN
  • Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY
  • Who funds TRINITY FORUM INC
  • Who funds FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE
  • 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 CHRISTIAN UNION INC
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds The Buckeye Institute
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • 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 DAVIS MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
  • Who funds The Independence Fund Inc
  • Who funds RANGER ROAD
  • Who funds VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC

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.

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation IncWI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ed & Ursula Meese Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report 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, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Ed & Ursula Meese Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ed & Ursula Meese Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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