· Private foundation
Elisabeth & George Mead Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $78,000 |
| OXFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL | $6,250 |
| GREENE CENTRAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $2,500 |
| CHEN CTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| COLORSCAPE CHEN ARTS FESTIVAL | $1,500 |
| PALM BEACH UNIVERSITY - REGAN ROACH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| SUNY COBLESKILL - OLIVIA SCHINALDI | $1,000 |
| ST BONAVENTURE - MADALYN QUATTROCCH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its 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 +38% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $536k · revenue +59%
Cornell University8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +59%- CCCOLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CMCHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +74%
- VOVILLAGE OF OXFORD BANK RESTORATIONone grant, 2017 · $12k
- MCMORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +62%
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.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.
See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 70 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 CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds COLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OXFORD MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PROMOTE OXFORD NOW INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
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 R C Smith Foundation Inc · Otis a Thompson Foundation Inc · The Greater Norwich Foundation · Preferred Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · The Roger W Follett Foundation Inc Co Lee Emerson and Palmer LLP · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elisabeth & George Mead Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elisabeth & George Mead Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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