· Private foundation
Meehleis Sinclair Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCI | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN | $3,000 |
| LODI HIGH SCHOOL | $1,600 |
| LODI FIRE FOUNDATION | $1,300 |
| VARIOUS QUALIFIED CHARITIES 500 EAC | $1,100 |
| KIWANIS OF GREATER LODI | $1,000 |
| LODI POLICE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES | $750 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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
- TLTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +33%
- LHLODI HOUSE2× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +26%
- LPLODI POLICE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- LBLODI BOOSTERS OF BOYSGIRLS SPORTS Bone grant, 2021 · $15k
- WOWORLD OF WONDERS SCIENCE MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -3%
- LMLODI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +163%
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Preserve, Protect and Maintain Lodi History
Organization's primary exempt purpose the specific and primary purposes of lucile salter packard children's hospital at stanford ("lpch") are to support, benefit and further the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of the board…
A nonprofit public benefit organization to provide funding for varied projects and programs such as scholarships, youth oriented activities, and projects that specifically aid the handicapped and the aged.
The organization is dedicated to improving the welfare of companion animals in the city of lodi by increasing adoptions, recuding animal suffering, and by providing the highest level of humane care, there by ultimately reducing the number…
Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
Family support
Lodi christian school's mission statement is: l: loving god and others c: christ-centered education and worship s: serving christ and our community
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Civic & charitable enterprise.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lodi Fire Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wayfinder Family Services. 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 THUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hospice of San Joaquin ↗
- Who funds WORLD OF WONDERS SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LODI FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LODI HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LODI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LODI POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LODI-TOKAY ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.
Open a dossier: The Cortopassi Family Foundation · Crete Family Foundation · The 54 Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Meehleis Sinclair Family 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.