· Private foundation
Meece McDowell Foundation
Its FY2025 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE | $20,000 |
| DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU | $17,500 |
| WHITE RIVER CHRISTIAN CAMP | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE OF SIDELL WATER WORKS | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MOUNTAIN AIR ANIMAL RESC | $5,000 |
| MOMENTUS INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| SIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| VERMILLION COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $3,500 |
| SJOGRENS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of your 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 +56% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- SUSIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH8× · 2017–2025 · $165k
- SFSIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE9× · 2017–2025 · $130k
- DADANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $8k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -57%
- CCCLEVELAND CLINICone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
The Northeast Iowa School of Music (NISOM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in the greater Tri-State area community by meeting the music education and enrichment needs of people of all ages and…
Dedicated to improving the lives of people impacted by diabetes through research, education and care.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Provide financial support to the dallas opera.
See Disclosure Above.
The organization's significant activity is to support the danville symphoney orchestra, inc.
The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and…
The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Momentous Institute and the most unlike its peers is Crosswinds Equine Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of WRR ↗
- Who funds CROSSWINDS EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE ↗
- Who funds Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION 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.
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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 Meece McDowell 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.