Colorado · Private foundation
Louis R & Dorothy M Meister 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.
- $235k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 33 | $235k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $228k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $195k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $161k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $176k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $190k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $187k | 11% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $180k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrupe Jesuit High School | $102,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Nurse-Family Partnership | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Craig Hospital Foundation | $62,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Volunteers of America Inc | $61,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $59,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Urban Peak Denver | $59,000 | 8 | 0% |
| A Woman's Place Incorporated | $51,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Nourish Meals on Wheels | $48,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Project Angel Heart | $48,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $42,000 | 8 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($400k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation
- How much does Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation give?
- Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $234,830 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Food & Nutrition (12%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Arrupe Jesuit High School ($102k), Nurse-Family Partnership ($85k), Craig Hospital Foundation ($62k).
- Does Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation based?
- Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation is based in CO.
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