How much does Meeleus Charitable Trust give?

Meeleus Charitable Trust reported 8 grants totaling $29,111 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Meeleus Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Human Services (18%), Philanthropy (16%).

Who are Meeleus Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Johns Evangelical Lutheran ($64k), Miravida Living Foundation ($41k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($34k).

Does Meeleus Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Meeleus 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 Meeleus Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is Meeleus Charitable Trust based?

Meeleus Charitable Trust is based in MN.

Meeleus Charitable Trust

Meeleus Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Meeleus 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.

$29k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$64kHuman Services$59kPhilanthropy$53kMembership Benefit$49kHealth$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$34kHousing & Shelter$24kYouth Development$19k

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,419

Median grant

States reached

$779k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MIRAVIDA LIVING FOUNDATION INC	$6,838
ST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN	$6,838
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS	$3,419
ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION	$3,419
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE	$3,419
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH	$1,726
OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,726
THE SALVATION ARMY	$1,726

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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$310k · 11 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$310k

$2k

Still filing today

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

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MIRAVIDA LIVING FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +96%
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American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +46%
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OSHKOSH AREA UNITED WAY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +2%

Funded once

BG
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH
one grant, 2017 · $2k

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.

United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Foundation for St Francis and Franklin Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

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United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy

Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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Oakland Mercy Hospital

We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.oakland mercy hospital is a member of mercy health services-iowa and…

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Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

Columbia St Mary's Hospital Ozaukee Inc

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Aurora Health Care Inc Group Return

To promote health, prevent illness, provide state-of-the art diagnosis and treatment. aurora is committed to improving the quality of health care and health outcomes, and providing services that are affordable and accessible.

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Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)

8/8

Grantees still filing

6/8

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$255,472Human Services$33,907Philanthropy$29,440Youth Development$16,746

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.

Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region IncWI13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Meeleus Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meeleus Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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