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Edwin T Meredith Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$2.7MScience & Tech$1.7MEducation$1.5MArts & Culture$1.3MHealth$532kEnvironment$383kHousing & Shelter$361kAnimals$170kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $587k
  • $250k+2 grants · $675k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SIMPSON COLLEGE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FDN$10,000
WYOMING STATE 4H$10,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$10,000
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE OF THE BIG HORN$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $10k → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
WY
IA
CT
CO
VA
DC
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 26 repeat orgs$570k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
22

Total granted

$9.1M
$440k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+38%

Still filing today

58%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SC
    SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +4%
  • TN
    THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH
    6× · 2019–2024 · $934k · revenue +43%
  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2023 · $550k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • BP
    BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +38%
  • MS
    MAINFRAME STUDIOS
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -54%
  • DO
    DIOCESE OF DES MOINES
    one grant, 2017 · $90k
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
Common Good Iowa

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.

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2
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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3
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

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4
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
5
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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6
Iowa Bird Rehabilitation

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…

Animals
7
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
8
Red River Zoological Society

As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.

Animals
9
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

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…

Community Improvement
10
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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11
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
12
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Fire Heart of Iowa; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
23/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $2,650,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL …SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $1,400,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWATHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH: $933,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFO…MAINFRAME STUDIOS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $800,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOTE MARINE LABORATORY & AQUAR: $570,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY & AQUARUNIVERSITY OF IA CENTER FOR: $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IA CENTER FORBRADFORD BRINTON MUSEUM: $230,000 · OtherBRADFORD BRINTON MUSEUMDIOCESE OF DES MOINES: $90,000 · Other+30 more: $605,000 · Other+30 moreDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $800,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $550,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY …Simpson College: $80,000 · EducationSimpson College+2 more: $40,000 · EducationREBUILDING TOGETHER INC: $350,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · AnimalsANIMAL AID INC: $10,000 · AnimalsPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $5,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,500 · AnimalsIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EnvironmentSSOS2 INC: $30,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,500 · Environment
Youth Development$2,650,000Arts & Culture$2,433,500Other$2,595,000Education$1,470,000Housing & Shelter$351,000Animals$116,500Environment$107,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $2,650,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $1,400,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH: $933,500 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $800,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $550,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER INC: $350,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSimpson College: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $60,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetInvisible Wounds Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHARLIE RUSSELL RIDERS FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $31,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEHS COUGAR TOUCHDOWN CLUB: $30,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetSSOS2 INC: $30,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetWYOMING STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE OF THE BIG HORNSINC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Farm in Ojai: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetELLIPSIS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUCROSS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHONOR SANCTUARY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANAWIM HOUSING FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHRYSALIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUPRISING: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 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 BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINFRAME STUDIOS ↗
  • 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 HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Little Farm in Ojai ↗
  • Who funds ELLIPSIS 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.

Prairie Meadows Race …Meredith Corporation …Community Fdn of Grea…EMC Insurance Foundat…Bookey Family Foundat…Variety - the Childre…The Merchants Bonding…First Interstate Banc…John Ruan Foundation …Ita Group FoundationThe West Bancorporati…United Way of Central…
Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino IncIA25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edwin T Meredith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin T Meredith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Edwin T Meredith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edwin T Meredith 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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