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Meisenheimer Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$116k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Meisenheimer Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$36k25%
FY202310$36k40%
FY202214$37k57%
FY20218$36k63%
FY202012$22k50%
FY201911$15k64%
FY201813$11k69%
FY201714$16kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$122kHealth$31kPhilanthropy$14kHuman Services$13kCommunity Improvement$9kHousing & Shelter$9kArts & Culture$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beth-El Center Inc$8,50050%
Nicole Donzello Foundation Inc$4,14215%
William Raveis Charitable Fund Inc$3,00020%
Turkey Hill School PTO$3,00024%
Orange Volunteer Fire Assoc Inc$2,00020%
Hope After Loss Inc$1,50030%
Orange Historical Society Inc$1,4154n/a
Walk With Frank Inc$1,00012%
Milford Performance Center Inc$1,0001n/a
Bridges Healthcare Inc$75030%
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Meisenheimer Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beth-El Center Inc$8,50050%
Nicole Donzello Foundation Inc$4,14215%
William Raveis Charitable Fund Inc$3,00020%
Turkey Hill School PTO$3,00024%
Orange Volunteer Fire Assoc Inc$2,00020%
Hope After Loss Inc$1,50030%
Orange Historical Society Inc$1,4154n/a
Walk With Frank Inc$1,00012%
Milford Performance Center Inc$1,0001n/a
Bridges Healthcare Inc$75030%
The Cancer Couch Foundation Inc$50010%
The Vicki Soto Memorial Fund Inc$50010%
Connecticut Yankee Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$50010%
American Legion Post 127$1001n/a

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meisenheimer Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBeth-El Center Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNicole Donzello Foundation Inc: $4,142 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWilliam Raveis Charitable Fund Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTurkey Hill School PTO: $3,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetOrange Volunteer Fire Assoc Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHope After Loss Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWalk With Frank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBridges Healthcare Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cancer Couch Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Vicki Soto Memorial Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetConnecticut Yankee Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Milford Bank Foundation IncCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Milford Bank Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Meisenheimer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Meisenheimer Foundation Inc 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.

About Meisenheimer Foundation Inc

How much does Meisenheimer Foundation Inc give?
Meisenheimer Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $35,842 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Meisenheimer Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Health (15%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Meisenheimer Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Beth-El Center Inc ($9k), Nicole Donzello Foundation Inc ($4k), William Raveis Charitable Fund Inc ($3k).
Does Meisenheimer Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Meisenheimer Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Meisenheimer Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Milford Bank Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Meisenheimer Foundation Inc based?
Meisenheimer Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 55 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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