· Private foundation
Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k71 grants · $355k
- $10k–50k88 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k110 grants · $9.4M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DC JUSTICE LAB | $375,000 |
| UPTOGETHER | $333,400 |
| DREAMING OUT LOUD | $300,000 |
| AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER | $300,000 |
| BLACK SWAN ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| DREAMING OUT LOUD | $200,000 |
| BLACK CHURCH FOOD SECURITY NETWORK | $175,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| HARRIET'S WILDEST DREAMS | $175,000 |
| OUT FOR JUSTICE | $175,000 |
| BLACK SWAN ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| RACIAL JUSTICE NOW | $150,000 |
| CRITICAL EXPOSURE | $150,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $150,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
192 repeat relationships — 110 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 23 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; $1.1M 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
THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +253% · 35% of their budget- DODREAMING OUT LOUD INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +193%
- IIIDENTITY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +255%
Funded once
- TBTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INCone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -23%
- PPROINSPIREgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $128k · revenue +49%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…
The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…
We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.
Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
The mission of the federal city council is to focus the creativity, talent and resources of washington dc's business and civic leaders on washington, dc's biggest challenges and opportunities.
Opportunity dc's mission is to help the city of washington, dc become a world-class example of effective local governance and a thriving economy. we advocate for legislative and regulatory changes that lower the cost of living for district…
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
Center for law and social policy (clasp) is a national, nonpartisan, anti-poverty nonprofit advancing policy solutions to improve the lives of people with low incomes. we develop practical yet visionary strategies for reducing poverty,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Weissberg Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
274 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. 274 of the 331 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMING OUT LOUD INC ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds DC JUSTICE LAB ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Justice and Education ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Commonwealth Institute for ↗
- Who funds IMPACT SILVER SPRING ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER DC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC ↗
- Who funds Critical Exposure Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE APOYO FAMILIAR ↗
- Who funds MANY LANGUAGES ONE VOICE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUT For JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and ↗
- Who funds TRABAJADORES UNIDOS DE WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PEOPLE FOR PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCE GEORGES LEADERSHIP ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · If Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Weissberg Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Venable Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc
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 Eugene & Agnes E Meyer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Afrithrive Inc — 41% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Housing Initiative Partnership Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- First Generation College Bound Inc — 6% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Year Up 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.