Skip to content
Jed & Celia Meese Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jed & Celia Meese Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$357kHealth$349kAnimals$157kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$13kCrime & Legal$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $342k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE: $342k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Southern Oregon Orthopedic Research Foundation
Health
2
Oregon Humane Society

The oregon humane society ("ohs") is a private animal welfare organization, founded in 1868 and incorporated in 1880, whose mission is to create a more humane society with the vision of a world where all animals are treated with…

Animals
3
Rogue Valley Humane Society

The Rogue Valley Humane Society provides compassionate care for stray unwanted displaced and abandoned animals and works toward ending pet overpopulation so that there will be no more homeless pets. We are committed to placing every…

Animals
4
Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals

Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome companion animals

Animals
5
Earth Day Oregon
—
6
Jefferson Regional Health Alliance

Jefferson Regional Health Alliance (JRHA) is a cross-sector learning community that convenes leaders from healthcare, public health, behavioral health, social services, and community-based organizations to improve health outcomes and…

Health
7
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
8
The Oregon Community Foundation Trust

The oregon community foundation trust is a supporting organization of the oregon community foundation (ocf). the trust makes grants that further the mission of ocf which is to improve the lives of all oregonians through the power of…

Philanthropy
9
Oregon Association of Nurse Anesthetists

Quality care and committment to the advancement of the art and science of anesthesiology

—
10
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
11
Southern Oregon Foundation Supporting a Cure for Cancer

Provide Grant Funding to Organizations to support cancer research to find cures.

Health
12
Sutter Valley Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Oregon University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARY'S SCHOOL: $250,000 · OtherST MARY'S SCHOOLASHLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION: $53,500 · OtherASHLAND ROTARY FOUNDATIONCRATERIAN THEATER: $25,000 · OtherCRATERIAN THEATER+7 more: $21,350 · Other+7 moreSOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE: $342,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICESOUTHERN OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $156,188 · AnimalsSOUTHERN OREGON HUM…+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsSOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationEisenhower Medical Center: $5,000 · HealthASHLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Health
Other$349,850Human Services$342,000Animals$157,188Education$51,000Health$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE: $342,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $156,188 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetASHLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION: $53,500 over 3y, 32% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMART READING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CHILD ABUSE TASK FORCE DBA CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASHLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Oregon Community …Silicon Valley Commun…The Carpenter Foundat…Sid and Karen DeBoer …The Barbara Roastinge…The Haines Philanthro…Carrico Family Founda…Raymond James Charita…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation · The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation · The Haines Philanthropic Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jed & Celia Meese Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jed & Celia Meese Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon Friends of Hospice: 0% of income from government
  • Ashland Community Hospital Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 18 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Jed & Celia Meese’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home