· Private foundation
Eugene & Agnes E Meyer 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER | $300,000 |
| DREAMING OUT LOUD | $300,000 |
| BLACK SWAN ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| DREAMING OUT LOUD | $200,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| BLACK CHURCH FOOD SECURITY NETWORK | $175,000 |
| HARRIET'S WILDEST DREAMS | $175,000 |
| OUT FOR JUSTICE | $175,000 |
| RACIAL JUSTICE NOW | $150,000 |
| BLACK SWAN ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $150,000 |
| CRITICAL EXPOSURE | $150,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +210%
- 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
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.
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,…
How this is measured
274 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. 274 of the 331 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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