· Private foundation
Jonathan and Meredith Meeks 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMPING & EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RE | $200,000 |
| LION OF CT INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPST PAUL'S SCHOOL2× · 2021–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +43%
- YUYALE UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2023 · $800k
- AEAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- TPTHE PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +30%
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $200k
- TPTIPPING POINT COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $192k · revenue +26%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
At town school, learning is prized, love of school is essential and boyhood is celebrated. town values being a diverse community that nurtures integrity, sensitivity and respect in its boys and prepares them to become productive and…
A pre-kindergarten through grade 8 independent school committed to academic excellence and the joy of childhood, fostering intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and the development of the whole child.
Island pacific academy (ipa) is a k-12 independent, coed, college preparatory school
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Peninsula school creates a space where children thrive and develop their full promise as confident contributors in the world. here they learn about themselves and others, discovering their passions and growing intellectually in an…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
Gilman school is a diverse community dedicated to educating boys in mind, body and spirit through particular emphasis upon academic excellence, athletic participation and aesthetic appreciation. gilman seeks to produce men of character and…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LION OF CT INCORPORATED ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jonathan and Meredith Meeks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jonathan and Meredith Meeks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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