Washington · Private foundation
Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2023
- 16
- Grants FY2023
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 5
- Total assets, FY2023
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $513k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.0M | 56% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.0M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.0M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $755k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $975k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $1.0M | 77% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $826k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Child Crisis Arizona | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| State University of Iowa Foundation | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Seva Foundation | $295,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Point Reyes Bird Observatory | $260,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Stop Soldier Suicide Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Western Rivers Conservancy | $225,000 | 5 | 1% |
| National Military Family Association | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Idea Museum Foundation | $180,000 | 4 | 21% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation
- How much does Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation give?
- Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,028,288 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (60%), Environment (9%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ($400k), Child Crisis Arizona ($300k), State University of Iowa Foundation ($300k).
- Does Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment, Arizona Community Foundation.
- Where is Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation based?
- Giles W & Elise G Mead Foundation is based in WA.
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