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Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$394k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$64,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 31
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$6.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving33$383k33%
FY202429$387k7%
FY202331$379k23%
FY202227$336k33%
FY202123$250k30%
FY202022$240k41%
FY201920$228kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$2.1MYouth Development$38kScience & Tech$14kRecreation & Sports$6kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$308,7007n/a
Appalachian State University Foundation Inc$153,75050%
Carolina Youth Coalition$100,00042%
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc$99,75050%
Nc State University$92,0002n/a
Gen-One Inc$37,50022%
The Howard University$35,00050%
Campbell University$30,00030%
East Tennessee State University Foundation$28,00050%
Wake Forest University$27,75040%
Show all 39 grantees
All grantees of Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$308,7007n/a
Appalachian State University Foundation Inc$153,75050%
Carolina Youth Coalition$100,00042%
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc$99,75050%
Nc State University$92,0002n/a
Gen-One Inc$37,50022%
The Howard University$35,00050%
Campbell University$30,00030%
East Tennessee State University Foundation$28,00050%
Wake Forest University$27,75040%
Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc$15,0002n/a
Morehouse College$15,00020%
Georgia Institute of Technology$14,0004n/a
Queens University of Charlotte$14,00040%
Drexel University$14,00040%
Mars Hill University$14,00040%
Stetson University Inc$14,00040%
Wofford College$13,50040%
Berea College$12,00040%
Greensboro College$12,00030%
Pitzer College$10,50030%
Warren Wilson College$8,50020%
Randolph College Inc$7,50030%
Duke University$7,50030%
Brigham Young University$7,0002n/a
Davidson College$7,00020%
Western Carolina University Foundation$6,25030%
Central Piedmont Community College Foundation Inc$5,25010%
Furman University$4,50020%
Wake Technical Community College Foundation$4,25020%
University of Richmond$3,50010%
Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat$3,00010%
Montreat College$3,00010%
Northeastern University$3,00010%
Spelman College$3,00010%
William Marsh Rice University$3,00010%
Colgate University$1,50010%
Vanderbilt University$1,50010%
Fayetteville State University Development Corp$1,50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAppalachian State University Foundation Inc: $153,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCarolina Youth Coalition: $100,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNorth Carolina State University Foundation Inc: $99,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGen-One Inc: $37,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Howard University: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCampbell University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEast Tennessee State University Foundation: $28,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWake Forest University: $27,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMorehouse College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDrexel University: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMars Hill University: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStetson University Inc: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWofford College: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBerea College: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreensboro College: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWarren Wilson College: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRandolph College Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Carolina University Foundation: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Piedmont Community College Foundation Inc: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFurman University: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWake Technical Community College Foundation: $4,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Richmond: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Commonwealth University Foundat: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontreat College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColgate University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFayetteville State University Development Corp: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

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About Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc

How much does Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc give?
Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc reported 36 grants totaling $394,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (93%), Youth Development (2%), Science & Tech (1%).
Who are Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($309k), Appalachian State University Foundation Inc ($154k), Carolina Youth Coalition ($100k).
Does Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Winston-Salem Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc based?
Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc is based in NJ.

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 70 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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