Virginia · Private foundation
James a Meador Foundation
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.
- $472k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations James a Meador Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $472k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $423k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $578k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $569k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $593k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $418k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $582k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moneta Volunteer Fire Department | $240,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Bradley Free Clinic of Roanoke Valley Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Virginia Baptist Children's Home and Family Services | $157,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Faith Christian School Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Good Samaritan Hospice Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Assisi Animal Clinics Of Virginia Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Eastlake Community Church | $130,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salem Area Ecumenical Ministries | $120,000 | 3 | 30% |
| Straight Street Roanoke Valley Inc | $120,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Apple Ridge Farm Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 9% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
James a Meador Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Investco Foundation · Powell Charitable Foundation · Mw Armistead III Family Foundation · The Newbern Foundation · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Foster Foundation · Smith Mountain Lake Charity Home Tour Inc · Cp & Mg Lunsford Tuw
How this is measured
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About James a Meador Foundation
- How much does James a Meador Foundation give?
- James a Meador Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $472,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does James a Meador Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Human Services (18%), Health (12%).
- Who are James a Meador Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Moneta Volunteer Fire Department ($240k), Bradley Free Clinic of Roanoke Valley Inc ($160k), Virginia Baptist Children's Home and Family Services ($157k).
- Does James a Meador Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James a Meador Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James a Meador Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Robertson Family Foundation Inc, Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect.
- Where is James a Meador Foundation based?
- James a Meador Foundation is based in VA.
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