· Private foundation
Edwin T Meredith 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $587k
- $250k+2 grants · $675k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA | $275,000 |
| THE BRINTON MUSEUM | $212,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL IOWA | $175,000 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY & AQUAR | $100,000 |
| BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CTR | $50,000 |
| INVISIBLE WOUNDS FDN | $50,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $25,000 |
| WYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROO | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FDN | $10,000 |
| WYOMING STATE 4H | $10,000 |
| REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE OF THE BIG HORN | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| SIMPSON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- SCSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +4%
- TNTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH6× · 2019–2024 · $934k · revenue +43%
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2023 · $550k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- MSMAINFRAME STUDIOSone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -54%
- BPBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +38%
- DODIOCESE OF DES MOINESone grant, 2017 · $90k
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.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Fire Heart of Iowa and the most unlike its peers is SSOS2 Inc. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% 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 6% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 53 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds MAINFRAME STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Simpson College ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds Invisible Wounds Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHARLIE RUSSELL RIDERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds EHS COUGAR TOUCHDOWN CLUB ↗
- Who funds SSOS2 INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE OF THE BIG HORNSINC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds Little Farm in Ojai ↗
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: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · EMC Insurance Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Ita Group Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Iowa
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 Edwin T Meredith 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.
- Guy Harvey Ocean Fund 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.
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