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Mead Witter Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.8M
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
12
Organizations funded FY2022
58%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$6,600,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Total assets, FY2022
$56M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 58% of the organizations Mead Witter Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202212$6.8M58%
FY20216$7.1Mn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$7.1MPhilanthropy$6.6MArts & Culture$69kHuman Services$35kEnvironment$5kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago Community Foundation$6,600,0001n/a
National Merit Scholarship Corporation$152,08020%
Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin$34,65911%
Trees for Tomorrow Inc$5,25020%
Wisconsin Rapids Boxing Club$3,0001n/a
Historic Point Basse Incorporated$3,0001n/a
Arts Council of South Wood County$3,00011%
Wisconsin Rapids City Band, Inc.$2,0001n/a
Friends of Rapids Music$6001n/a

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.0M), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Mead Witter Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mead Witter Foundation Inc 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.

About Mead Witter Foundation Inc

How much does Mead Witter Foundation Inc give?
Mead Witter Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $6,761,379 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Mead Witter Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (50%), Philanthropy (46%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are Mead Witter Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Chicago Community Foundation ($6.6M), National Merit Scholarship Corporation ($152k), Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin ($35k).
Does Mead Witter Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mead Witter Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mead Witter Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Mead Witter Foundation Inc based?
Mead Witter Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 13 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $87k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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