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Meadows Charitable Trust at a glance

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Meadows Charitable Trust

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$37k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Religion$169kArts & Culture$52kYouth Development$40kEducation$29kHuman Services$16kPublic Benefit$15kScience & Tech$15kHealth$14kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ADDISON YOUTH CENTER$15,000
ABBY'S PAWS FOR A CAUSE$12,000
SALVATION ARMY ELMIRA$5,000
NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION CENTER$5,000
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $5k → 15%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Meadows Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Meadows Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$229k · 8 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
24

Total granted

$229k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+28%

Still filing today

25%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CE
    CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    3× · 2017–2019 · $86k
  • UI
    URBAN IMPROV
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k
  • CO
    CHURCH OF HEAVENLY REST
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k

Funded once

  • RF
    REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -28%
  • SA
    ST AIDAN'S CHAPEL
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • ISSUE ONEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +105%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
2
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Avery Coonley School

The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.

—
5
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
8
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Paul's School; the most unlike its peers is The Rockwell Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $86,300 · OtherCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHURBAN IMPROV: $50,000 · OtherURBAN IMPROVCHURCH OF HEAVENLY REST: $40,000 · OtherCHURCH OF HEAVENLY RESTST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHST AIDAN'S CHAPEL: $12,500 · OtherABBYS PAWS FOR A CAUSE: $12,000 · OtherYOUNG PEOPLES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Other+14 more: $30,310 · Other+14 moreREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureREHEARSAL…FAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFAITH AND…+4 more: $1,700 · Arts & Culture+4 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,000 · EducationTHE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE: $7,500 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $6,500 · Education+1 more: $50 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ADDISON YOUTH CENTER: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentISSUE ONE: $10,000 · Public BenefitROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyNEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100 · Health
Other$271,110Arts & Culture$31,700Education$29,050Youth Development$15,000Public Benefit$10,000Philanthropy$9,500Human Services$5,000Health$100

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ADDISON YOUTH CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISSUE ONE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLung Cancer Alliance: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNING ELMIRA MUSICAL ARTS INC ORCHESTRA OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROCKWELL MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COPLEY SOCIETY OF ART: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRegional Science and Discovery Center: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $50 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.

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.

Community Foundation …United Way of the Sou…The Triangle FundTioga Downs Regional …Corning Incorporated …Douglas G Anderson Le…The Anderson Foundati…The Hilliard Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes IncNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · United Way of the Southern Tier Inc · The Triangle Fund · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Douglas G Anderson Leigh R Evans Foundation · The Anderson Foundation Inc · The Hilliard Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Meadows Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meadows Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Historical Society: 22% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • South Shore Art Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Meadows Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Meadows Charitable Trust 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 37 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.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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