How much does Meeks Family Foundation give?

Meeks Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $110,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Meeks Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (61%), Animals (22%), Human Services (10%).

Who are Meeks Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Blue Lion Rescue ($150k), Patriot Paws Service Dogs ($125k), Bridgeway Church ($105k).

Does Meeks Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Meeks Family Foundation 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 Meeks Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is Meeks Family Foundation based?

Meeks Family Foundation is based in OK.

Meeks Family Foundation

Meeks Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Meeks Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$110k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$105k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$795kAnimals$281kHuman Services$135kRecreation & Sports$25kInternational$23kEducation$15kEnvironment$10kHealth$5kOther$0

02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$50k–250k1 grant · $105k

$105,000

Median grant

States reached

$99k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BRIDGEWAY CHURCH	$105,000
THE JAMES F MIKULSKI MEMORIAL GROUP	$5,000

02The need

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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$698k · 9 repeat orgs$606k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +0% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$698k

$501k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%

-21%

Still filing today

56%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalHealthArts & CultureOther

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

HC
Harbor Church
5× · 2018–2022 · $370k
BL
BLUE LION RESCUE
4× · 2018–2021 · $150k · revenue -72% · 56% of their budget
4T
4 THE ANIMALS RESCUE INC
4× · 2017–2021 · $65k · revenue -21% · 54% of their budget

Funded once

GC
Green Country Bapitist Assembly
one grant, 2021 · $250k
PP
PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGSgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue +76%
BC
BRIDGEWAY CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

Big Dog Rescue Inc co James & Cheryl Babcock

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Zen Animal Rescue

Dog Rescue

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Lucky Farms Animal Rescue

Rescue . Rehabilitate and rehome dogs

Animals

Operation Save a Shelter Dog

Dog Rescue

Animals

Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals

Fred's Mission Rescue and Sanctuary

Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.

Animals

Peppy Pet Rescue

rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need

Animals

St Clouds Rescue

Animals

Bullmastiff Rescuers Inc

To assist with veterinary and foster care

Animals

Rescued Pets Are Wonderful Inc

Rescue dogs

Animals

Rescuesforjojo

Dog rescue

Animals

American Bulldog Rescue Inc

We are a totally volunteer organization with the sole purpose of saving and rehabilitating bulldogs and mastiffs.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 4 the Animals Rescue Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nehi Research Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

6/12

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$863,000Animals$281,000Human Services$125,000Education$15,000Crime & Legal$10,000Health$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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.

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.

Network for GoodDC8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Meeks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meeks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home