How much does George L N Meyer Family Foundation In give?

George L N Meyer Family Foundation In reported 7 grants totaling $19,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does George L N Meyer Family Foundation In fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Philanthropy (35%), Education (10%).

Who are George L N Meyer Family Foundation In's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($139k), United Performing Arts Fund Inc ($37k), Milwaukee County Historical Society Inc ($33k).

Does George L N Meyer Family Foundation In fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does George L N Meyer Family Foundation In accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as George L N Meyer Family Foundation In?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation.

Where is George L N Meyer Family Foundation In based?

George L N Meyer Family Foundation In is based in WI.

George L N Meyer Family Foundation In

George L N Meyer Family Foundation In at a glance

· Private foundation

George L N Meyer Family Foundation In

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$178kPhilanthropy$141kEducation$40kHealth$10kHuman Services$8kAnimals$5kRecreation & Sports$4kEnvironment$4kOther$0

02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$136k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION	$5,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC	$5,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOUNT VERNON	$5,000
OLMSTEAD NETWORK	$2,500
HELP OF DOOR COUNTY	$1,000
WISCONSIN POLICY FORUM	$500
WASHINGTON PARK NEIGHBORS	$500

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$361k · 59 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$361k

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+24%

Still filing today

56%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

MILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +12%
MA
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $18k · revenue +34%
WP
WAUWATOSA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +226%

Funded once

SC
SETON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2018 · $13k
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +32%
SA
SALVATION ARMY MILWAUKEE
one grant, 2023 · $2k

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.

Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education

Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment

Milwaukee Public Museum Endowment Fund

Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.

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Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education

Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement

Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…

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Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc

Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.

Arts & Culture

The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education

Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee; the most unlike its peers is Pauls Party 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

60 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. 60 of the 115 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/60

Grantees still filing

45/60

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$140,200Arts & Culture$137,381Other$96,564Education$12,050Health$5,100Human Services$4,250Recreation & Sports$3,500

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI59.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc

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 George L N Meyer Family Foundation In funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George L N Meyer Family Foundation In. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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