· Private foundation
Great Meadows Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k62 grants · $211k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,640 |
| PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS LTD | $13,594 |
| KENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ART CRAFT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,360 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASPEED ART MUSEUM2× · 2020–2024 · $323k · revenue +224%
- RURESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC2× · 2021–2022 · $38k · revenue +87%
- KPKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC2× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- KMKENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ARTS CRAFTSone grant, 2022 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
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.
The purpose of the knoxville museum of art is to support and promote public interest, awareness, knowledge and education in the visual arts in east tennessee . to this end, the corporation shall, among other things, develop permanent…
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Local history museum for lexington and fayette county, kentucky
The luminary is a nonprofit art space in st. louis that supports artists and the community through exhibitions, residencies, grants, and public programs. we provide time, space, and resources for creative work and create opportunities for…
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
The indiana museum of art was founded with the vision of fostering community engagement with the arts by bringing the richness of international contemporary art directly to north central indiana. through this dynamic initiative, the museum…
The smith museum of art and information has a desire to open a new museum in downtown chicago to install and display stained glass windows and other items of stained glass art, glass paperweight collections, in addition to other artwork to…
The organization promotes the visual arts in the central kentucky area through sponsorshps of exhibits, offering classes, art fairs, and similar endeavors.
Provides contemporary art exhibitions and programs to the community that are aesthetically compelling, conceptually rigorous, and socially impactful.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 224 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Fund for the Arts Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Clifton Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Great Meadows Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Great Meadows Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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