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Kevin E Myers Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$471k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$315k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$1.6MPhilanthropy$452kHealth$276kEnvironment$18kHuman Services$13kCrime & Legal$10kCivil Rights$3kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
  • $250k+1 grant · $315k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$273k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALISBURY SCHOOL$314,574
TIDAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$110,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$20,000
SCOTT WILLIS LEGACY FOUNDATION$15,000
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY$9,102
Individual grant recipient$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SWIM OCEAN CITY: $1k → 8%LIFE CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 13%LIFE CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 13%LIFE CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 13%HOPE AND LIFE OUTREACH: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 12 repeat orgs$382k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$2.0M
$362k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+4%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SS
    SALISBURY SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +19%
  • TF
    TIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $265k · revenue +82%
  • SW
    SCOTT WILLIS LEGACY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +4% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $335k · revenue -80%
  • CA
    CONSTANCE AND BROOKS ROBINSON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • WC
    WORCESTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
The Williams School

The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.

2
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
3
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
4
Sea Research Foundation Inc

To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.

Animals
5
Shore Country Day School

To provide an education that inspires a love of learning and encourages children to embrace academic challenge. we seek to build character, cultivate creativity, and value diversity as we help our children become healthy, compassionate…

6
Sea Crest School Inc

Sea crest school is dedicated to providing the best in innovative education to inspire and empower our learners to engage curiosity, express creativity, act with compassion and lead with courage.

Education
7
Sails Inc

Our mission is to provide resource sharing, direct & equal access, and meet every patrons needs, through cooperation, leadership, & technology sails, inc runs and supports the enterprise online information and circulation systems for 70…

Education
8
International Charter School Corporation

The mission of ics is to integrate the diverse languages and cultures of the communities it serves by teaching all students in two languages-in spanish and english or in portuguese and english-and helping children develop an appreciation…

Education
9
Salisbury Christian School Inc

Salisbury christian school, inc.'s primary mission is to provide a christian education for approximately 650 children from infants through grade 12.

Education
10
Hope Crisis Center

Hope crisis center provides crisis line services and shelter to domestic violence and sexual assault victims

Health
11
Marine Conservation Biology Institute

Marine conservation institute is dedicated to securing permanent, strong protection for the oceans' most important places for us and future generations.

Education
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tidalhealth Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Scott Willis Legacy Foundation. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALISBURY SCHOOL INC — $1,184,944 · EducationSALISBURY SCHOOL INCTHE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $335,000 · EducationTHE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC+1 more — $32,000 · EducationAGH FOUNDATION — $397,000 · OtherAGH FOUNDATIONJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — $20,000 · OtherTOWSON UNIVERSITY — $16,384 · Other+7 more — $46,374 · Other+7 moreTIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $265,000 · HealthTIDALHEALTH F…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · HealthSCOTT WILLIS LEGACY FOUNDATION — $45,000 · PhilanthropyLOWER SHORE LAND TRUST INC — $17,500 · EnvironmentLIFE CRISIS CENTER INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesHOPE & LIFE OUTREACH INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesSWIM OCEAN CITY INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesWORCESTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $10,000 · Youth Development
Education$1,551,944Other$479,758Health$275,000Philanthropy$45,000Environment$17,500Human Services$14,000Youth Development$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC — $1,184,944 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetTHE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $335,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $265,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetSCOTT WILLIS LEGACY FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION — $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER SHORE LAND TRUST INC — $17,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLIFE CRISIS CENTER INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHOPE & LIFE OUTREACH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SCOTT WILLIS LEGACY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION
  • Who funds LOWER SHORE LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds LIFE CRISIS CENTER INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
  • Who funds HOPE & LIFE OUTREACH INC
  • Who funds SWIM OCEAN CITY INC

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.

Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation IncDE19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Joan W Jenkins Foundation 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 Kevin E Myers 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 24%
  • Life Crisis Center Inc24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Kevin E Myers Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kevin E Myers Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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