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Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$392kFood & Nutrition$193kHuman Services$173kEducation$164kHousing & Shelter$125kRecreation & Sports$116kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kArts & Culture$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $141k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A WOMAN'S PLACE INC$15,000
ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY$15,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$15,000
NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP$11,000
SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN$10,000
TEEN INC$10,000
CAMP CHIEF OURAY-YMCA ROCKIES$10,000
URBAN PEAK DENVER$10,000
NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
CAMP WAPIYAPI$10,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$10,000
ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN$7,000
CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$6,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Canine Companions for Independence: $5k → 9%Canine Companions for Independence: $5k → 9%Canine Companions for Independence: $5k → 9%Canine Companions for Independence: $3k → 9%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $5k → 7%Integrated Family Community Services: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 52 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
16

Total granted

$1.5M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+25%

Still filing today

54%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    Craig Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +228%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $59k · revenue +23%
  • UP
    URBAN PEAK DENVER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +239%

Funded once

  • IF
    INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SE
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IF
    Integrated Family Community Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +97%
  • SO
    SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLO
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Colorado Health Institute
Health
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
4
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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5
Spira Giving Colorado
Arts & Culture
6
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
7
Colorado Jazz Ambassadors
Arts & Culture
8
Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative Inc

Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…

Housing & Shelter
9
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
11
Colorado Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

—
12
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Colorado; the most unlike its peers is Arapahoe County Foundation Inc. 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

37 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. 37 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $102,000 · OtherARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $61,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCDOMINICAN SISTERS HOME HEALTH: $50,000 · OtherINTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY: $45,000 · OtherDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $40,000 · OtherST ANTHONY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $39,000 · OtherSEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST: $38,000 · OtherThe Gathering Place: $35,000 · OtherMETRO CARING: $33,750 · Other+43 more: $495,190 · Other+43 moreNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $85,000 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PART…Craig Hospital Foundation: $62,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Fo…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $36,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH H…Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $35,000 · HealthChildren's Hospit…GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Health+1 more: $6,000 · HealthA WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED: $51,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesIntegrated Family Community Services: $15,000 · Human ServicesSparkHope Automotive: $5,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $59,000 · Food & NutritionNOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS: $48,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $48,000 · Community ImprovementFULL CIRCLE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $13,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN PEAK DENVER: $59,000 · Housing & ShelterROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $42,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureEL SISTEMA COLORADO: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$938,940Health$235,000Human Services$114,000Food & Nutrition$107,000Community Improvement$61,000Housing & Shelter$59,000Arts & Culture$51,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $62,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $59,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $59,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED: $51,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS: $48,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $48,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $42,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $40,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST: $38,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $36,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO CARING: $33,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $27,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetStep Denver: $26,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARAPAHOE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $17,250 over 4y, 10% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIntegrated Family Community Services: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetColumbine Community Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFULL CIRCLE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSMILING GOAT RANCH INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSparkHope Automotive: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND HUTS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL SISTEMA COLORADO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
  • Who funds A WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds METRO CARING ↗
  • Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds Step Denver ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARAPAHOE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds Integrated Family Community Services ↗
  • Who funds Columbine Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FULL CIRCLE OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationEl Pomar FoundationWestern Union Foundat…Mile High United Way …Amg Charitable Gift F…Libertygives Foundati…Anschutz Family Found…Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Colorado Trust
Colorado Gives FoundationCO37.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Colorado Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Louis R & Dorothy M Meister Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Louis R & Dorothy M Meister 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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