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Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos

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.

$40k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$827k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$40k0%
FY202314$40k36%
FY20229$34k22%
FY202110$82k0%
FY20205$15k20%
FY201911$85k0%
FY201817$89k35%
FY201716$147kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$273kHealth$88kArts & Culture$60kEducation$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCommunity Improvement$3kReligion$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Robin Hood Foundation$270,00060%
Wnet$37,50070%
St Francis Hospital$10,00010%
Manhasset Community Fund Inc$2,90050%
North Sea Fire Department Inc$1,45060%
Southampton Volunteer Ambulance Inc$1,20050%
Onderdonk Landmark Society Ltd$1,0004n/a
Charity Global Inc$1,0001n/a
Peer Pals$80011%
Covenant House$75010%
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All grantees of Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Robin Hood Foundation$270,00060%
Wnet$37,50070%
St Francis Hospital$10,00010%
Manhasset Community Fund Inc$2,90050%
North Sea Fire Department Inc$1,45060%
Southampton Volunteer Ambulance Inc$1,20050%
Onderdonk Landmark Society Ltd$1,0004n/a
Charity Global Inc$1,0001n/a
Peer Pals$80011%
Covenant House$75010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$60020%
American Cancer Society Inc$52120%
Adventures in Learning Inc$50020%
Strathmore Association Inc$5002n/a
Fordham University$50020%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$50010%
Katie Oppo Research Fund Inc$41010%
Habitat for Humanity Inc$4071n/a
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$3001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($201k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $270,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWnet: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManhasset Community Fund Inc: $2,900 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Sea Fire Department Inc: $1,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSouthampton Volunteer Ambulance Inc: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPeer Pals: $800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCovenant House: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $521 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAdventures in Learning Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKatie Oppo Research Fund Inc: $410 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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About Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos

How much does Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos give?
Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos reported 14 grants totaling $39,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (51%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Robin Hood Foundation ($270k), Wnet ($38k), St Francis Hospital ($10k).
Does Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos 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.
Where is Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos based?
Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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