Wisconsin · Private foundation
Meier Family Foundation
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.
- $360k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Meier Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $340k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $366k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $326k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $315k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $315k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $305k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $289k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $307k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radio Milwaukee Inc | $378,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc | $152,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Women's Center Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $137,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Horizon Home Care & Hospice Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Exchange Club of Culver City Charitable Foundation | $100,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Discovery World Ltd | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Inc | $100,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($616k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meier Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Ellenbecker Investment Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc
How this is measured
About Meier Family Foundation
- How much does Meier Family Foundation give?
- Meier Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $360,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Meier Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Health (20%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Meier Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Radio Milwaukee Inc ($378k), Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc ($152k), The Women's Center Inc ($140k).
- Does Meier Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Meier 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 Meier Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
- Where is Meier Family Foundation based?
- Meier Family Foundation is based in WI.
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