· Private foundation
Howard P Meyer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cody's Closet | $15,000 |
| Imperial Valley Food Bank | $15,000 |
| Pioneers Museum | $15,000 |
| El Centro PAL | $10,000 |
| Neighborhood House of Calexico | $5,000 |
| Cancer Research of the Desert | $5,000 |
| Best Step Forward | $5,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Imp Valley | $5,000 |
| IV Desert Museum | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IVIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK5× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +38%
- IVImperial Valley College Foundation4× · 2019–2022 · $29k · revenue +99%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IVImperial Valley Humane Societyone grant, 2022 · $20k
- IRIMPERIAL REGIONAL ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -7%
- ICImperial County Office of Education Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +88%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
IVWF partners with local non-profit organizations to address pressing health issues for Imperial County's most vulnerable populations. IVWF provides funding for efforts addressing healthy eating, active living: community prevention linked…
Serve the least, the last and lost in the Inland Empire
Inland empire harm reduction is a community-based public health organization working to improve the health and well-being of people affected by drug use in the inland empire region of riverside and san bernardino counties.
To Champion local philanthropy to benefit the Imperial Valley community by helping donors fulfill their philanthropic goals while preserving enduring charitable assets forever.
The United Way of Imperial County raises money in Imperial County from People in the work place, businesses, and individuals to help support agencies that serve the community.
The core purpose of IVAR is to help its members become more professional and profitable, while promoting and protecting real property rights.
The inland empire labor institute connects unions to community-based organization resources to develop an inclusive and sustainable economic development ecosystem in california.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
LA Community Aid (LACA) empowers socially and economically oppressed members of greater Los Angeles by equipping them with tools to overcome job insecurity, food insecurity, and houselessness. In doing so, we enable our community not…
The Diaper Bank of the Inland Empire provided essential diapering supplies to low-income families across the Inland Empire.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Imperial County Office of Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Imperial Valley College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House of Calexico ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BEST STEP FORWARD ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL REGIONAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Imperial County Office of Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIFTED UP LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds DEES RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization Howard P Meyer Foundation 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.
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 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.