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Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation

The organization seeks to protect every police dog in the state of wisconsin by providing the dogs with bullet-proof and stab-proof vests. In addition, meca wisconsin police canine vest foundation also raises funds for wisconsin police k-9 dogs and equipment to protect and serve the public. In order to further its purposes, the…

$260k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
83%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 6
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$280k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$240k100%
FY20246$120k83%
FY20235$135k60%
FY20225$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$260kEducation$140kPublic Benefit$115kPhilanthropy$85kPublic Safety & Disaster$80k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Ashland$90,0003n/a
Bayfield County Department of Human Services$45,0002n/a
City of Sheboygan Falls$20,0001n/a
Grafton K9 Foundation Inc$20,0001n/a
Muskego Police Public Safety Fund$20,0001n/a

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($400k), 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.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 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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About Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation

How much does Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation give?
Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $260,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (38%), Education (21%), Public Benefit (17%).
Who are Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: City of Ashland ($90k), Bayfield County Department of Human Services ($45k), City of Sheboygan Falls ($20k).
Does Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation based?
Meca Wisconsin Police Canine Vest Foundation Inc Aka the Meca Foundation 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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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