Maryland · Private foundation
Mead Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $362,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 61
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Mead Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $3.1M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $5.0M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $2.5M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $1.3M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $1.4M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $1.4M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $1.1M | 100% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $970k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education | $1,131,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Identity Inc | $1,040,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Inter-Faith Food Shuttle | $935,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc | $930,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Durham Children's Initiative | $915,000 | 7 | 53% |
| Stepup Ministry | $915,000 | 7 | 33% |
| Parent Encouragement Program Inc | $619,000 | 7 | 14% |
| National Family Resiliency Center Inc | $590,000 | 7 | 46% |
| Kidznotes Inc | $575,000 | 7 | 32% |
| 4roots Foundation Inc | $565,000 | 6 | 6% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mead Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 84 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · Duke University · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Bender Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · William S Abell Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Mead Family Foundation
- How much does Mead Family Foundation give?
- Mead Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $3,127,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Mead Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Youth Development (20%), Health (17%).
- Who are Mead Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education ($1.1M), Identity Inc ($1.0M), Inter-Faith Food Shuttle ($935k).
- Does Mead Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mead Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mead Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mead Family Foundation based?
- Mead Family Foundation is based in MD.
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