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· Private foundation
JOHN & BETTY MEYER FAMILY
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$84k
Granted FY2017
16
Grants
3
Communities
$47k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 16 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k15 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$772k
Total assets
Largest grants
- XENIA YMCA$47,300
- GREENE CTY COMMUNITY FDN$9,800
- SIMON KENTON BRIDGES OF HOPE$5,000
- TOWARD INDEPENDENCE$5,000
- ONE BISTRO$5,000
- SALVATION ARMY DAYTON CHAPTER$3,000
- XENIA ROTARY CLUB$2,000
- BELMONT UNIVERSITY$1,000
- VICTORY PROJECT$1,000
- KIND MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH$1,000
- GREENE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$900
- KIRKMONT CENTER$900
- FAIRBORN ART ASSOCIATION$500
- XENIA AREA COMMUNITY THEATER$500
- CALVARY CHAPEL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY$500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Knoxville College
Knoxville college is a private, church related coeducational liberal arts institution. the college is open to students of diverse backgrounds and cultures who seek a quality liberal arts education.
Education
2
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…
Arts & Culture
3
Young Disciple Ministries
To conduct a religious ministry for young people by providing youth camps and distributing a religious magazine
Religion
4
Eden Village of Wilmington
Our mission is to build relationships and communities for our chronically homeless friends.
Housing & Shelter
5
Joy Outdoor Education Center
Helping people grow and succeed through life-long, experience-based learning.
Environment
6
Kirkridge Inc
Kirkridge is a retreat and study center focused on spirit, justice, and community.
Religion
7
Byron Bible Camp
Provide a christ centered camp/retreat center where people encounter the person of jesus christ
Recreation & Sports
8
The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc
The organization's purpose is to promote the highest standards of excellence in the theater and the performing arts, primarily through the production and performance of plays and musicals for the general public, as well as various…
Arts & Culture
9
Simmons College of Kentucky Inc
Simmons College of Kentucky is an institution of biblical higher education dedicated to educating people in the urban context through strong academic and professional programs in order that they may become productive citizens and agents of…
Education
10
The Trinity Institute Inc
Religious education and retreat facilities.
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11
Knoxville Public Library
Public library for the benefit of the town providing library access and services for the community
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12
Rivendell Institute Inc
The mission of the rivendell institute to explore and advance the contribution of a christian vision of life to human flourishing within academia and contemporary culture aims to equip christian students and faculty for a lifetime of…
Religion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toward Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Xenia Area Community Theater Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$65,100Human Services$10,000Health$5,000Education$1,000Crime & Legal$1,000Religion$900Arts & Culture$500
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.
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
The Dayton FoundationOH15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Greene County Community Foundation · 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 organisation JOHN & BETTY MEYER FAMILY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ONE BISTRO.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 352435851 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ONE BISTRO, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to John & Betty Meyer Family?
Find your warmest path to John & Betty Meyer Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines