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Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$394k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $231k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
$3,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC AT CHAPEL HILL$64,000
Individual grant recipient$47,000
NC STATE UNIVERSITY$44,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$27,500
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY$25,500
CAROLINA YOUTH COALTION$25,000
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN$25,000
Individual grant recipient$22,450
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$14,250
EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$7,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$7,000
NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC FDN$6,500
UT-AUSTIN -UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$5,500
CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN$5,250
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$4,500
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FDN: $10k → 14%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL: $64k → 13%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY INC: $13k → 13%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $14k → 15%East Carolina University: $15k → 20%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $10k → 13%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 14%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL: $63k → 13%Campbell University Inc: $13k → 13%Hampton University: $13k → 14%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL: $53k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $47k → 8%UNC AT CHARLOTTE: $49k → 10%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL: $49k → 13%UNC GREENSBORO: $41k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $36k → 8%UNC AT CHARLOTTE: $47k → 10%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL: $37k → 13%Winston-Salem State University Foundatio: $10k → 15%UNC GREENSBORO: $37k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $34k → 8%UNC AT CHARLOTTE: $44k → 10%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL: $29k → 13%UNC AT GREENSBORO: $31k → 16%NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $48k → 8%UNC AT CHARLOTTE: $28k → 10%University Of North Carolina At Chapel H: $15k → 13%UNC AT GREENSBORO: $22k → 16%NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $44k → 8%UNC AT GREENSBORO: $22k → 16%North Carolina State University: $42k → 8%University of North Carolina at Charlott: $28k → 10%NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC FDN: $54k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN: $25k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN: $25k → 8%UNC AT CHARLOTTE: $24k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN: $25k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN: $20k → 8%UNC AT CHARLOTTE: $23k → 10%CAROLINA YOUTH COALTION: $25k → 10%CAROLINA YOUTH COALTION: $25k → 10%CAROLINA YOUTH COALTION: $25k → 10%GEN-ONE INC: $25k → 10%CAROLINA YOUTH COALTION: $25k → 10%GEN-ONE INC: $13k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 46 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -25% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
8

Total granted

$2.1M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-25%

Still filing today

54%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AS
    APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $154k · revenue +70%
  • CY
    CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +224%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +450%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of North Carolina at Charlott
    one grant, 2019 · $28k
  • UO
    University of North Carolina - Greensbor
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • NC
    North Carolina A & T State University
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
8
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
11
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
12
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University; the most unlike its peers is Gen-One 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

40 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. 40 of the 70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
22/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $308,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLIndividual grant recipient: $214,217 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $191,644 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITYNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $159,250 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $153,750 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $108,150 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $92,000 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYUNC GREENSBORO: $78,250 · OtherNC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC FDN: $65,250 · Other+23 more: $279,000 · Other+23 moreCAROLINA YOUTH COALITION: $100,000 · EducationCAROLINA YOUTH COALITIONNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $99,750 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVER…THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITYEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $27,750 · Education+29 more: $235,750 · Education+29 moreGen-One Inc: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentBROWN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · Community ImprovementFAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,650,211Education$556,250Youth Development$37,500Community Improvement$13,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $14,000 over 4y, 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 budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $8,000 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 budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $4,500 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
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 APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Gen-One Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARS HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Greensboro College ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Pitzer College ↗

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 Ca…The Winston-Salem Fou…Duke Energy FoundationFidelity FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Ibm International Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Lettie Pate Whitehead…Dogwood Health TrustThe Cannon Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Bank of America C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goodwin Meissner Fam Fdn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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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