· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN | $10,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PETRI SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVA | $5,000 |
| WNET | $5,000 |
| BAY STREET THEATRE | $2,500 |
| ST MARY'S RC CHURCH | $500 |
| NORTH SEA FIRE DEPARTMENT | $250 |
| WFUV | $250 |
| SOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE | $250 |
| STRATHMORE ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| ADVENTURE IN LEARNING | $250 |
| MANHASSET LAKEVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE | $250 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 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 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +49%
- SVSOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $1k · revenue +48%
- AIADVENTURES IN LEARNING INC2× · 2023–2024 · $500 · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SFST FRANCIS HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +8%
CHARITY GLOBAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +36%- PPPEER PALSone grant, 2018 · $800 · revenue -85%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Manhasset Community Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MANHASSET COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SEA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds PEER PALS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURES IN LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds KATIE OPPO RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Meeps Foundation Inc Mary Ellen Cobos funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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