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Erie Hall Meyer Charitable Fund Inc at a glance

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Erie Hall Meyer Charitable Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$302k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$738kHuman Services$325kReligion$163kPhilanthropy$132kEnvironment$92kYouth Development$55kCrime & Legal$44kHealth$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ANDREWS BY THE SEA$100,000
CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER$50,000
BIG BROTHERSSISTERS OF SOUTH ALABAMA$30,000
UNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
AFRICAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH$15,000
ADOPTION ROCKS$15,000
BALDWIN COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY$12,000
COASTAL BALDWIN EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION$11,283
ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION$10,000
SOUTH ALABAMA LAND TRUST$10,000
THE COOKERY PROJECT$5,000
EQUINE THERAPY GROUP FOUNDATION$2,500
SOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL$1,000
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 (FY20–25, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ADOPTION ROCKS: $15k → 19%ARC OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $10k → 12%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $150k → 12%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $50k → 12%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $50k → 12%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $50k → 12%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 12 repeat orgs$244k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$1.4M
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+53%

Still filing today

58%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • CS
    CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +113% · 37% of their budget
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +6%
  • AU
    AFRICAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH
    2× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRI-CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $62k
  • GC
    GULG COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILTY
    one grant, 2021 · $54k
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +53%
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
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
2
Champions for Autism

EstablishaSchoolforAutisminBaldwinCounty,AL

—
3
The Alabama Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

To provide education, opportunities and support services in an effort to prevent teen pregnancy.

Human Services
4
Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association Foundation
—
5
West Alabama Action Group Inc
Community Improvement
6
Alabama Broadcasters Association Educational Foundation
Education
7
Alabama Network of Children's Advocacy Centers Inc
Crime & Legal
8
Delta Council

Improvement of the business conditions of agriculture and trade in the mississippi delta communities and in industrial development in the mississippi delta

—
9
Alabama Audubon

Alabama audubon's mission is to promote conservation and a greater knowledge of birds, their habitats, and the natural world.

Environment
10
Baldwin County Library Cooperative

Bclc is a voluntary, cooperative membership network of the public libraries in baldwin county, alabama. in supprot of the member libraries, bclc will provide a range of services to meet member library needs. elevating all libraries in the…

Education
11
Bolivar County Literacy Council

Literacy improvement

Human Services
12
Bama Builds (formerly Bama Works Fund)

Beginning of Year- Serve as a Scholarship Granting Organization for low-to-moderate income children in the state of Alabama. However, the program went dormant during the 2022-2023 school year. We are now repurposing the program to serve…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Coastal Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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

14 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. 14 of the 26 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GULF SHORES CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $571,500 · OtherGULF SHORES CITY BOARD OF EDUCATIONST ANDREWS BY THE SEA: $140,000 · OtherST ANDREWS BY THE SEAUNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC: $70,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INCCOASTAL BALDWIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $69,183 · OtherCOASTAL BALDWIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONTRI-CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $61,808 · OtherTRI-CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONGULG COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILTY: $54,000 · Other+8 more: $101,500 · Other+8 moreCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENT…Adoption Rocks Inc: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOASTAL BALDWIN EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION INC: $86,283 · EducationTHE PROJECT CATE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 · HealthJENNIFER CLAIRE MOORE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentSouth Alabama Land Trust Inc: $12,500 · EnvironmentAFRICAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $17,500 · Religion
Other$1,067,991Human Services$325,000Education$97,283Youth Development$45,000Health$35,000Environment$27,500Religion$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC: $300,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetCOASTAL BALDWIN EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION INC: $86,283 over 3y, 48% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC: $70,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $17,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSouth Alabama Land Trust Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PROJECT CATE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetARC-BALDWIN COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJENNIFER CLAIRE MOORE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Rc Craft Family Found…Baldwin County Electr…The Sybil and White S…The Robert and Joanna…J L Bedsole Foundatio…The Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Snook FoundationMapp Family FoundationJoe and Mary Ann Crom…Tonsmeire Charitable …United Bank Charitabl…
Rc Craft Family FoundationAL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rc Craft Family Foundation · Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sybil and White Smith Foundation · The Robert and Joanna Cunningham Charitable Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Snook Foundation · Mapp Family Foundation · Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust · Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 · United Bank Charitable Foundation

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 Erie Hall Meyer Charitable Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Erie Hall Meyer Charitable Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Erie Hall Meyer Charitable Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Erie Hall Meyer Charitable Fund Inc 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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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