Missouri · Private foundation
Meek Charitable Trust
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.
- $7k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $205k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Meek Charitable Trust 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 | 6 | $7k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $20k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $10k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $3k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $15k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough T1d | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ozark Christian Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Child Advocacy Center Inc | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Southwest Baptist University | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Springfield Workshop Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Springfield Symphony Association | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ipourlife Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Missouri Colleges Fund Inc | $1,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Missouri State University Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough T1d | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ozark Christian Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Child Advocacy Center Inc | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Southwest Baptist University | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Springfield Workshop Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Springfield Symphony Association | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ipourlife Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Missouri Colleges Fund Inc | $1,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Missouri State University Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Springfield Contemporary Theatre Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Help Give Hope | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meek Charitable Trust 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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Cook Family Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Springfield Regional Arts Council · The Turner Family Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Meek Charitable Trust
- How much does Meek Charitable Trust give?
- Meek Charitable Trust reported 6 grants totaling $6,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Meek Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (37%), Youth Development (15%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Meek Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Breakthrough T1d ($16k), Ozark Christian Church ($10k), The Child Advocacy Center Inc ($9k).
- Does Meek Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Meek Charitable Trust 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 Meek Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc, Cook Family Foundation, Musgrave Foundation.
- Where is Meek Charitable Trust based?
- Meek Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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