· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mercy Health Foundation | $2,000 |
| The Child Advocacy Center | $1,500 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $1,000 |
| LifeHouse Crisis Maternity Home | $1,000 |
| Springfield Symphony Orchestra | $500 |
| Springfield Workshop Foundation | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 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
Backed again, and grew
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +49%
- TCTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +46%
- SBSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- OCOZARK CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MSMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +32%
- SCSpringfield Contempory Theatreone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
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.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
The mission of springfield college is to educate students in spirit, mind and body for leadership in service to others by building on a foundation of the college's humanics philosophy, academic excellence, service, and student success.…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The siue foundation exists to support the mission, vision, and values of southern illinois university edwardsville. on behalf of the university, the foundation provides fundraising coordination and implementation, serves as the steward for…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
The board of control for southern regional education shall be devoted to the task of assisting states, institutions and agencies concerned with higher education in their efforts to advance knowledge and to improve the social and economic…
To provide financial support to missouri southern state university from donations from the public for scholarships, awards to students, departmental support, cultural activities, general college support and faculty development.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Simpson university is a christ-centered learning community committed to developing each student in mind, faith, and character for a life-time of meaningful work and service in a constantly changing world.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Springfield Workshop Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Springfield Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds IPOURLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HELP GIVE HOPE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Meek Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meek Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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