· Private foundation
John & Betty Meyer Family Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k15 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $47,300 |
| GREENE CTY COMMUNITY FDN | $9,800 |
| TOWARD INDEPENDENCE | $5,000 |
| SIMON KENTON BRIDGES OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| ONE BISTRO | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY DAYTON CHAPTER | $3,000 |
| XENIA ROTARY CLUB | $2,000 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| KIND MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH | $1,000 |
| VICTORY PROJECT | $1,000 |
| KIRKMONT CENTER | $900 |
| GREENE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $900 |
| FAIRBORN ART ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| XENIA AREA COMMUNITY THEATER | $500 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY | $500 |
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
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.
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…
Provide a christ centered camp retreat center where people encounter the person of jesus christ
Religious education and retreat facilities.
Open table of nashville is a non-profit, interfaith, community that disrupts the cycles of poverty, journeys with the marginalized and provides education about issues of homelessness.
Educate preschool through twelfth grade children in a Christian environment while developing them spiritually,academically, emotionally, and physically with Jesus Christ as their standard and the Bible as their foundation.
Operation of adult Christian spiritual retreat center in Pulaski County, Kentucky
Christian camp & retreat center
Advancing the kingdom of god and spreading the gospel through preaching, teaching, and evanelizing.
To provide emergency assistance and a christian presence to knox county ohio.
To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.
Public library for the benefit of the town providing library access and services for the community
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.
8 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. 8 of the 16 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.
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.
Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Greene County Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 John & Betty Meyer Family 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.