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· Private foundation
GREAT MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$352k
Granted FY2023
52
Grants
3
Communities
$154k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of GREAT MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2023 · 52 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k49 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $154k
$3,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- KENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ART CRAFT$153,600
- RUCKUS INC$20,000
- LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA$10,000
- FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$7,500
- RACHEL SINGEL$6,500
- COLLEEN MERRILL$5,900
- ANDREW COZZENS$5,500
- WILLIAM HUNTER STAMPS$5,500
- JOSE M NAPOLES PUERTO$5,100
- CEIRRA EVANS$5,000
- VIAN SORA$5,000
- CYNTHIA L NORTON$5,000
- COLIN DOHERTY$4,950
- CHRISTINA BALLENGER$4,900
- AMANDA B MATTHEWS$4,600
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 14%. 90% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$564k · 35 repeat orgs$674k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +95% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
35
82
Total granted
$564k
$548k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+98%
+95%
Still filing today
3%
9%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- KMKENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ART CRAFT2× · 2020–2023 · $157k
- RIRUCKUS INC3× · 2020–2023 · $70k
- UMUNDER MAIN INC3× · 2020–2022 · $55k
Funded once
- KMKENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ARTS CRAFTSone grant, 2022 · $250k
- EAELEVATOR ARTIST RESOURCEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ARANISSA RAYNA LEWISone grant, 2022 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Portland Museum of Art
Museum/Educational
Arts & Culture
2
Baltimore Museum of Art
The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, (see sch. o) embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the…
Arts & Culture
3
Art Explorium
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4
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Located in the vibrant warehouse arts district of downtown new orleans, louisiana, the ogden museum of southern art holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of southern art and is recognized for its original exhibitions, public…
Arts & Culture
5
Riverside Art Museum
To integrate art into the lives of people in a way that engages, inspires, and builds community.
Arts & Culture
6
Kentucky Humanities Council Inc
The kentucky humanities council is dedicated to telling kentucky's story through programs and services that create a legacy of pride in the wealth of kentucky's culture, building civic engagement, and supporting local humanities programs…
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7
Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation
Engage,educate, and excite everyone about the extraordinary kentucky derby experience!
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8
Akron Art Museum
To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.
Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Contemporary Art
Enhance appreciation of contemporary art through education, programming and exhibitions.
Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Contemporary Art
Please see mission statement on form 990, page 2, part iii, line 1.
Arts & Culture
11
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.
Arts & Culture
12
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The philadelphia museum of art is committed to being the cultural heart of philadelphia. (sch o)pma is a national and international destination for art, but first and foremost we are philadelphia's museum for all the many diverse…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Josephine Sculpture Park Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speed Art Museum. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,153,706Arts & Culture$73,975Recreation & Sports$7,500Environment$2,700
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Fund for the Arts IncKY26.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Fund for the Arts Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation Of · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc · Kentucky Humanities Council Inc · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation GREAT MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +98% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 270353666 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on RESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Great Meadows Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Great Meadows Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines