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Meigs Family Foundation

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.

$746k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MHealth$651kReligion$594kHuman Services$254kInternational$150kHousing & Shelter$118kPhilanthropy$50kRecreation & Sports$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $353k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alzheimers Association$250,000
Regina Luminis Academy$236,082
Individual grant recipient$67,000
Live Vertical$50,000
FOCUS$44,000
Living Bridges$35,000
Gianna Center$25,000
The Kings Christian Academy$11,206
Individual grant recipient$10,000
RC Activities$8,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Immaculate University$3,420
Malvern Retreat House$1,694
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%St Josephs House: $40k → 6%St Josephs House: $40k → 6%St Josephs House: $20k → 6%St Josephs House: $9k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 18 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
31

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+28%

Still filing today

44%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • FU
    FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $372k · revenue +87%
  • RL
    REGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $251k · revenue +66%
  • SS
    SPANISH SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    2× · 2018–2019 · $159k · revenue +32% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • AA
    Alzheimers Association
    one grant, 2023 · $400k
  • LS
    Little Sisters of the Poor
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • HO
    Heart of the Father Ministriesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +41%
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.

1
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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2
Ave Maria University Inc

University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church

Education
3
St Peter Catholic

St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.

Education
4
Christendom Educational Corporation

Provide a catholic liberal arts education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Education
5
Providence College

See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.

Education
6
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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7
Queen of Heaven Academy

It is the academy's mission to be "beautiful indeed" by assisting parents in their holy duty to form their children in the image of christ. in divine hope, we lift our eyes toward the day when the answer to the high priestly prayer's…

Education
8
Saint Vincent College

Saint vincent college is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the catholic faith, the heritage of benedictine monasticism, and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to life and learning. its mission is to…

Education
9
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
10
Chesterton Academy of Rochester

To partner with parents to raise a generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical, liberal arts tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith. Students will abound in the skills and character requisite for success in…

Education
11
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education
12
Focolare Media Inc

Our mission is to provide content that empowers people to grow spiritually, improve relationships, engage in dialogue and foster collaboration within the Church and throughout society.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Franciscan University of Steubenville; the most unlike its peers is Messy Family Project. 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

20 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. 20 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Alzheimers Association: $400,000 · OtherAlzheimers AssociationIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLittle Sisters of the Poor: $150,000 · OtherLittle Sisters of the PoorIndividual grant recipient: $117,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIVE VERTICAL INC: $100,000 · OtherSalvation Army: $100,000 · OtherCardinal OHara High School: $94,900 · OtherARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $67,037 · Other+33 more: $747,919 · Other+33 moreFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $372,177 · EducationFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STE…REGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY: $250,582 · EducationREGINA LUMINIS ACADEMYSPANISH SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $159,000 · EducationSPANISH SCHOLARSHIP FUNDREGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY: $46,670 · Education+3 more: $50,828 · Education+3 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFAMILY GRATITUDE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF GERTRUDE GURT: $120,972 · Human ServicesSt Josephs House Inc: $109,000 · Human ServicesHeart of the Father Ministries: $100,000 · ReligionETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $35,000 · ReligionMESSY FAMILY PROJECT: $10,000 · ReligionPRO-LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Civil RightsFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $25,000 · International
Other$1,926,856Education$879,257Health$251,000Human Services$229,972Religion$145,000Civil Rights$25,000Youth Development$25,000International$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $372,177 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY: $250,582 over 2y, 10% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPANISH SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $159,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetFAMILY GRATITUDE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF GERTRUDE GURT: $120,972 over 6y, 23% of budgetSt Josephs House Inc: $109,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetLIVE VERTICAL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetHeart of the Father Ministries: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCATHOLIC ANSWERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY: $46,670 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPRO-LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $24,813 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $14,809 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON PARK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $11,206 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMESSY FAMILY PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds REGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPANISH SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY GRATITUDE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF GERTRUDE GURT ↗
  • Who funds St Josephs House Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIVE VERTICAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Heart of the Father Ministries ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC ↗
  • Who funds REGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO-LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗

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.

Verizon FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Verizon FoundationNJ10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Meigs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meigs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Meigs Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Meigs Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 58 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home