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Meister Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$378k
Granted FY2018
18
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$88k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Arts & Culture$160kHealth$152kReligion$128kHuman Services$104kEducation$46kPhilanthropy$19kInternational$2kYouth Development$250Other$0
02FY2018 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k11 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $291k
$3,904
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE BETH TORAH$88,228
CASA PACIFICA$76,550
COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUND$76,500
MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY$50,000
RUBICON THEATRE COMPANY$47,050
INTERFACE$11,001
Individual grant recipient$10,100
JEWISH FEDERATION$8,000
CONTRIBUTIONS LESS THAN 250$3,904
WEV WIMENS ECONOMIC VENTURES$2,000
NEW WEST SYMPHONY$2,000
HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION$700
READING VILLAGE$350
OXNARD FILM SOCIETY$350
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$300
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA PACIFICA: $77k → 10%CASA PACIFICA: $28k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$604k · 17 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$604k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+14%

Still filing today

41%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CM
    COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $129k
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH TORAH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $128k
  • Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families
    2× · 2017–2018 · $104k · revenue -4%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -25%
  • CC
    CSUCI CA STATE UNIV CHANNNEL ISLAND
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • FO
    Focus On The Masters Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $850 · revenue +63%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Vista at Entrada School of Performing Arts & Technology

Vista is a K-8 public charter school committed to providing a superior academic program enhanced by training in performing arts and a technologically advanced curriculum.

Education
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
3
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
4
Ventura Montessori School Inc

Educational instruction

Education
5
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc

Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…

Education
6
Vancouver School of Arts and Academics Ptsa

enhancing the success and achievements of students.

Education
7
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
8
The Anacapa School

Through academic and experiential learning, we encourage students to integrate critical thinking, creativity, integrity and compassion in order to develop the potential of each individual in our diverse community.

9
Villa Bella Expeditionary School

To conduct expeditionary learning through engaged teaching, a project-based curriculum, and a demanding and supportive school culture. Literacy is central and reading and writing are integrated through the curriculum. Character development…

Education
10
Bridge California

Education

Education
11
Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture
12
Ventura County Arts Council

The organization advances the arts in Ventura County providing arts education in schools, and opportunities in schools, other creative settings, advocating for local artists, arts organizations,partnerships among artists, supporters,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Ventura County and the most unlike its peers is Oxnard Film Society. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUND — $129,200 · OtherCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDTEMPLE BETH TORAH — $128,453 · OtherTEMPLE BETH TORAHRUBICON THEATRE COMPANY — $99,256 · OtherRUBICON THEATRE COMPANYIndividual grant recipient — $31,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH FEDERATION — $16,800 · Other+12 more — $16,508 · OtherCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families — $104,100 · Human ServicesCasa Pacifica Cente…MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY — $50,390 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF V…NEW WEST SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $8,400 · Arts & CultureNEW WEST SY…+3 more — $1,950 · Arts & CultureINTERFACE INC — $21,001 · HealthUNITED WAY INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyVENTURA EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $850 · Youth DevelopmentBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $500 · InternationalRiverfield Country Day School — $300 · Education
Other$421,417Human Services$104,100Arts & Culture$60,740Health$21,001Philanthropy$2,500Youth Development$850International$500Education$300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families — $104,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY — $50,390 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetINTERFACE INC — $21,001 over 2y, 21% of budgetNEW WEST SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $8,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING VILLAGE — $1,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFocus On The Masters Inc — $850 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVENTURA EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $850 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOXNARD FILM SOCIETY — $600 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBAY LAUREL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT FACULTY ASSOCIATION — $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiverfield Country Day School — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY
  • Who funds INTERFACE INC
  • Who funds NEW WEST SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds UNITED WAY INC
  • Who funds READING VILLAGE
  • Who funds Focus On The Masters Inc
  • Who funds VENTURA EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
  • Who funds OXNARD FILM SOCIETY
  • Who funds BAY LAUREL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT FACULTY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Riverfield Country Day School

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ventura County Community FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Meister Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Meister Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Meister 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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