Rhode Island · Private foundation
Meehan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $215k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $914k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Meehan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $208k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $180k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $171k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $155k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $155k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $155k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $120k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $71k | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads Rhode Island | $110,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Amos House | $110,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $75,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Save the Bay Inc | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Joslin Diabetes Center Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| San Miguel Education Center | $45,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Lincoln School | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $43,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Providence Animal Rescue League Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Flower District | $27,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads Rhode Island | $110,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Amos House | $110,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $75,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Save the Bay Inc | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Joslin Diabetes Center Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| San Miguel Education Center | $45,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Lincoln School | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $43,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Providence Animal Rescue League Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Flower District | $27,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education | $26,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Ronald McDonald House of Providence Inc | $22,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($599k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meehan Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Feinstein Foundation Inc · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Meehan Foundation
- How much does Meehan Foundation give?
- Meehan Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $215,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Meehan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are Meehan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Crossroads Rhode Island ($110k), Amos House ($110k), The Salvation Army ($75k).
- Does Meehan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Meehan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Meehan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Champlin Foundation.
- Where is Meehan Foundation based?
- Meehan Foundation is based in RI.
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