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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CMCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUND2× · 2017–2018 · $129k
- TBTEMPLE BETH TORAH2× · 2017–2018 · $128k
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families2× · 2017–2018 · $104k · revenue -4%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -25%
- CCCSUCI CA STATE UNIV CHANNNEL ISLANDone grant, 2017 · $1k
- FOFocus On The Masters Incgraduatedone 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.
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.
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.
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…
Educational instruction
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,…
enhancing the success and achievements of students.
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…
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.
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
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…
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,…
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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.
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.
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