· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of LOUIS R & DOROTHY M MEISTER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $15,000 |
| INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| A WOMAN'S PLACE INC | $15,000 |
| NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $11,000 |
| NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN | $10,000 |
| TEEN INC | $10,000 |
| URBAN PEAK DENVER | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| CAMP CHIEF OURAY-YMCA ROCKIES | $10,000 |
| CAMP WAPIYAPI | $10,000 |
| ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $7,000 |
| NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER DISABLED | $6,000 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NPNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +14%
- CHCraig Hospital Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +111%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES5× · 2020–2024 · $59k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IFIntegrated Family Community Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +97%
- IFINTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SEone grant, 2021 · $15k
- SOSEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLOone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Colorado and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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. 37 of the 73 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.
- 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 PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- 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 CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Louis R & Dorothy M Meister 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.
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