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Meece McDowell Foundation at a glance

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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.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Religion$165kPublic Safety & Disaster$130kEducation$105kEnvironment$30kHealth$22kAnimals$22kArts & Culture$20kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$682k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FRIENDS OF WRR: $3k → 14%FRIENDS OF MOUNTAIN AIR ANIMAL RESC: $5k → 20%CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%PROVIDENCE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $10k → 7%VERMILLION COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $4k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%SJOGRENS FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%WHITE RIVER CHRISTIAN CAMP: $10k → 9%FRIENDS OF WRR: $3k → 14%FRIENDS OF MOUNTAIN AIR ANIMAL RESC: $5k → 20%DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU: $18k → 17%Friends of WRR: $3k → 14%FRIENDS OF MOUNTAIN AIR ANIMAL RESC: $2k → 20%DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU: $18k → 17%FRIENDS OF WRR: $3k → 14%Danville Area Community College Fou: $13k → 17%FRIENDS OF WRR: $3k → 14%DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU: $13k → 17%FRIENDS OF WRR: $3k → 14%DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU: $13k → 17%Friends of WRR: $3k → 14%DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FND: $5k → 17%MOMENTUS INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FND: $5k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE: $5k → 17%DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FND: $5k → 17%Danville Area Community College Fou: $5k → 17%DANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 17%SIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $40k → 17%SIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE: $30k → 17%Sidell United Methodist Church: $30k → 17%SIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $30k → 17%SIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $25k → 17%SIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE: $20k → 17%Sidell Fire and Rescue: $20k → 17%SIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $15k → 17%SIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE: $10k → 17%SIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 17%SIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE: $10k → 17%VILLAGE OF SIDELL WATER WORKS: $10k → 17%VILLAGE OF SIDELL WATER WORKS: $10k → 17%SIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE: $10k → 17%Sidell Fire and Rescue: $10k → 17%Sidell United Methodist Church: $10k → 17%SIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE: $10k → 17%SIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE: $10k → 17%VILLAGE OF SIDELL WATER WORKS: $10k → 17%SIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 17%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$469k · 9 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$469k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-8%

Still filing today

33%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsYouth 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

  • SU
    SIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $165k
  • SF
    SIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $130k
  • DA
    DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -57%
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
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

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…

Health
2
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
3
Montgomery County Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
4
Northeast Iowa School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute

Dedicated to improving the lives of people impacted by diabetes through research, education and care.

Health
6
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

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).

Health
8
The Dallas Opera Foundation

Provide financial support to the dallas opera.

Philanthropy
9
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
10
Danville Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc

The organization's significant activity is to support the danville symphoney orchestra, inc.

Philanthropy
11
Dallas Wind Symphony

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Momentous Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $165,000 · OtherSIDELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCHSIDELL FIRE AND RESCUE: $130,000 · OtherSIDELL FIRE AND RESCUEVILLAGE OF SIDELL WATER WORKS: $30,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF SIDELL WATER WORKS+7 more: $53,700 · Other+7 moreDANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $92,500 · EducationDANVILLE AREA COMMUN…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationFriends of WRR: $17,500 · Arts & CultureDANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCROSSWINDS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $6,000 · AnimalsMomentous Institute: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentNow I Lay Me Down to Sleep: $5,000 · Human ServicesSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 · Health
Other$378,700Education$94,500Arts & Culture$19,500Animals$6,000Youth Development$5,000Human Services$5,000Health$4,100

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 budgetDANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $92,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of WRR: $17,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCROSSWINDS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNow I Lay Me Down to Sleep: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 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.

  • Who funds DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Friends of WRR ↗
  • Who funds CROSSWINDS EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
  • Who funds Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Meece McDowell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meece McDowell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 19 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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