· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| CIVIL WAR PRISON CAMP | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WOODLAWN CEMETERY | $2,000 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ARNOT ART MUSEUM | $1,250 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $700 |
| LEE COLLEGE | $600 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $500 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $500 |
| CRYSTAL THEATRE YOUTH PROGRAM | $500 |
| TAMID GROUP | $500 |
| BLOOM FOR WOMEN | $500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +39%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $1k · revenue +40%- EOECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM INC OF CHE2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- ECELMIRA COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +27%
- IFIMATTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k
- OWONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of the new york public library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
New england historic genealogical society's mission is to advance the study of family history in america and beyond. we educate, inspire, and connect people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. we conduct business under the…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 93 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ARNOT ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FIVE RIVERS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TAMID ISRAEL INVESTMENT GROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM INC OF CHE ↗
- Who funds THORN ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · Douglas G Anderson Leigh R Evans Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Anderson Foundation Inc · The Triangle Fund · The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Inc · United Way of the Southern Tier Inc · Lowman-Howell Foundation Inc · Black Horse Tavern Society Fund Inc · The Hilliard Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Meier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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