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Grace P Meekins Tuw-South Cong

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.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$37k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$408kReligion$204kArts & Culture$119kEducation$85k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$36,830
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$36,830
BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$36,830
SHRINERS' HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$36,830
SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION$18,416
SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$18,416
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY & MUSEUMS ASSN: $34k → 17%SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION: $20k → 17%SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $18k → 17%SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION: $18k → 17%SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION: $18k → 17%SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $18k → 17%SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $17k → 17%SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION: $17k → 17%SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 17%SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION: $12k → 17%SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $39k → 17%SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $37k → 17%SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $36k → 17%SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $34k → 17%SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $34k → 17%SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $24k → 17%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$783k · 5 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
1

Total granted

$783k
$34k

Still filing today

80%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther
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

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $204k · revenue +106%
  • SM
    SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +27%
  • SL
    Springfield Library Foundation Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • SL
    SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY & MUSEUMS ASSN
    one grant, 2020 · $34k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 6 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $204,124 · HealthBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INCSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $204,124 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENSOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $204,124 · OtherSOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHSPRINGFIELD LIBRARY & MUSEUMS ASSN: $33,750 · OtherSPRINGFIELD LIBRARY & MUSEUMS ASS…SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION: $85,189 · EducationSPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS COR…Springfield Library Foundation Inc: $85,189 · EducationSpringfield Library Fou…
Health$408,248Other$237,874Education$170,378

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $204,124 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $204,124 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION: $85,189 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSpringfield Library Foundation Inc: $85,189 over 5y, 3.4% 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 BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Springfield Library Foundation Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Grace P Meekins Tuw-South Cong funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grace P Meekins Tuw-South Cong. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Springfield Museums Corporation: 5% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 6 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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