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Howard P Meyer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
86%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 14
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$974k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations Howard P Meyer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$80k0%
FY202314$120k86%
FY20223$30k33%
FY20213$50k0%
FY20206$8k17%
FY201914$18kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$64kCommunity Improvement$40kHealth$35kEducation$34kFood & Nutrition$32kYouth Development$30kHuman Services$22kAnimals$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Howard P Meyer Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Imperial Valley Food Bank$31,50050%
Imperial Valley College Foundation$29,00047%
Codys Closet$25,0002n/a
Neighborhood House of Calexico$15,00020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$12,00020%
Best Step Forward$10,00021%
Imperial Regional Alliance Inc$5,00012%
Imperial County Office of Education Foundation$5,00014%
Lifted Up Living Inc$5,00017%
The Salvation Army$2,0002n/a
Dees Rescue Inc$1,00011%
American Lung Association$1,00010%
Autism Imperial County$4001n/a
Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc$4001n/a

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard P Meyer Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetImperial Valley Food Bank: $31,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetImperial Valley College Foundation: $29,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetNeighborhood House of Calexico: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBest Step Forward: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetImperial Regional Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetImperial County Office of Education Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLifted Up Living Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetDees Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Howard P Meyer Foundation

How much does Howard P Meyer Foundation give?
Howard P Meyer Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Howard P Meyer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Community Improvement (13%), Health (12%).
Who are Howard P Meyer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Imperial Valley Food Bank ($32k), Imperial Valley College Foundation ($29k), Codys Closet ($25k).
Does Howard P Meyer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Howard P Meyer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Howard P Meyer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Howard P Meyer Foundation based?
Howard P Meyer Foundation is based in CA.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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