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Meiguei Foundation at a glance

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Meiguei 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.

$1k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$525
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

50% of Meiguei Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Meiguei Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $1k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’20
3
’21
1
’22
1
’23
2
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$11kReligion$1kHealth$685Public Safety & Disaster$175Food & Nutrition$100International$100Housing & Shelter$66Crime & Legal$50
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$110
Median grant
5
States reached
$103k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CDC Foundation$525
Stanford University$250
United Methodist Church Fremont$200
Rensselaer Polytech Institute$150
CDC Foundation$110
Shepherd's Gate$66
Feeding America$50
American Asso for Cancer Research$50
The Carter Center$50
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Asso for Cancer Research: $50 → 22%Stanford University: $1k → 8%University of California-Irvine: $500 → 10%1st Chinese United Methodist Church: $600 → 10%Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $3k → 11%Police and Sheriff Support Alliance: $25 → 14%International Union of Police Asso: $25 → 9%National Coalition Police Troopers: $25 → 17%CDC Foundation: $525 → 13%The Carter Center: $50 → 14%Feeding America: $50 → 14%Guangxi Univ Alumni Asso of America: $200 → 19%TechnoServe: $25 → 7%Stanford University: $500 → 8%University of California Irvine: $500 → 10%United Methodist Church Fremont: $500 → 10%Rensselaer Polytech Institute: $3k → 11%Police Sheriff Support Alliance: $25 → 14%International Union of Police Asso: $25 → 9%International Union Police Asso: $25 → 17%CDC Foundation: $110 → 13%Feeding America: $50 → 14%Stanford University: $500 → 8%University of California Irvine: $500 → 10%United Methodist Church Fremont: $200 → 10%Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $500 → 11%International Union of Police Assoc: $25 → 9%International Union of Police Assoc: $25 → 17%Stanford University: $250 → 8%Shepherd's Gate: $66 → 10%Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $500 → 11%Association Emergency Firefighters: $25 → 17%Stanford University: $100 → 8%Rensselaer Polytech Institute: $500 → 11%Rensselaer Polytech Institute: $150 → 11%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

IL
WI
NY
PA
CA
VA
DC
GA
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10k · 5 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$10k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

40%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +13%
  • UO
    University of California-Irvine
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2k
  • UM
    United Methodist Church Fremont
    2× · 2020–2021 · $700

Funded once

  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $635 · revenue -35%
  • 1C
    1st Chinese United Methodist Church
    one grant, 2022 · $600
  • GU
    Guangxi Univ Alumni Asso of America
    one grant, 2021 · $200
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
New York University

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.

Education
2
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

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5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
7
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
8
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

—
9
American Institute for Cancer Research

Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…

Health
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Association for Cancer Research Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Union of Police Associations Afl-Cio. 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

9 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. 9 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $7,150 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,350 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYUniversity of California-Irvine: $1,500 · OtherUniversity of California-I…United Methodist Church Fremont: $700 · OtherUnited Methodist Church Fr…1st Chinese United Methodist Church: $600 · Other1st Chinese United Methodi…Guangxi Univ Alumni Asso of America: $200 · OtherGuangxi Univ Alumni Asso o…+9 more: $250 · Other+9 moreNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $635 · Arts & CultureFeeding America: $100 · Food & NutritionTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $50 · InternationalTECHNOSERVE INC: $25 · InternationalShepherds Gate: $66 · Housing & ShelterAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $50 · Health
Education$9,500Other$3,250Arts & Culture$635Food & Nutrition$100International$75Housing & Shelter$66Health$50

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $7,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $635 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShepherds Gate: $66 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL UNION OF POLICE ASSOCIATIONS AFL-CIO: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $25 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Meiguei Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meiguei Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 21 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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