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Meredith Foundation at a glance

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Meredith 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$257k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$3.1MEducation$2.3MArts & Culture$1.6MRecreation & Sports$695kHuman Services$646kHealth$567kPhilanthropy$366kAnimals$193kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $826k
  • $250k+1 grant · $257k
$57,912
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$257,022
MINEOLA CIVIC CENTER$225,000
MINEOLA MEMORIAL LIBRARY$176,421
Individual grant recipient$154,738
LAKE COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE$84,894
GRACE COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE$69,000
MINEOLA LEAGUE OF ARTS$57,950
ADDIE E MCFARLAND FOUNDATION$57,912
MINEOLA YOUTH FOUNDATION$41,471
APETSPCA$22,886
MINEOLA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
THE METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME$8,000
ROSE HILL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$7,000
MINEOLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER$2,950
MINEOLA COMMUNITY CHEST$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $8k → 12%THE METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $8k → 16%THE METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $8k → 12%THE METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $8k → 16%THE METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $8k → 16%THE METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $8k → 16%THE METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $8k → 16%THE METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $8k → 16%MINEOLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $30k → 13%MINEOLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $24k → 13%MINEOLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $15k → 13%MINEOLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $6k → 13%MINEOLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $3k → 13%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10.0M · 16 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
2

Total granted

$10.0M
$80k

Still filing today

63%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • MM
    MINEOLA MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +5% · 71% of their budget
  • MY
    MINEOLA YOUTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $695k · revenue +153% · 68% of their budget
  • LC
    LAKE COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $694k · revenue +186% · 38% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • FS
    FLINT STEEL COALITION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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
Mineola Foundation Inc
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2
Mizner Park Cultural Arts Association Inc
Philanthropy
3
Milford Historical Society
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4
Minneola Wellness Center Inc

Health and fitness of community

Recreation & Sports
5
Melcher-Dallas Senior Center
Human Services
6
Mitchell Park Youth Sports League
Recreation & Sports
7
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Art Ctr

Operation of local history and art museum and promotion of local history and art.

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8
Mineola Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire protection and fire prevention education to the city of Mineola, TX and the surrounding community.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Minco Senior Citizen Center Inc

provide meals, activities and apportunities to enrich the lives of senior citizens in the area.

—
10
Piney Woods Fine Arts Association

Piney Woods Fine Arts Association is dedicated to the promotion and awareness of performing and visual arts to enrich the lives of all people of Houston County and the surrounding areas.

Arts & Culture
11
Millersburg Area Senior Center Advisory Board

Provide opportunities for socialization, recreation and education for residents of upper dauphin county age 60 and older

Human Services
12
Mineral County Genealogy Society

Preserve family histories

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mineola Memorial Library Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mineola League of the Arts. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,028,028 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,431,015 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMINEOLA MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $1,231,481 · OtherMINEOLA MEMORIAL LIBRARY INCMINEOLA YOUTH FOUNDATION: $694,833 · OtherMINEOLA YOUTH FOUNDATIONGRACE COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE: $567,401 · OtherGRACE COMMUNITY HEALTHCAREMINEOLA LEAGUE OF THE ARTS: $392,987 · OtherMINEOLA LEAGUE OF THE ARTS+5 more: $91,108 · OtherMINEOLA CIVIC CENTER INC: $1,965,030 · Community ImprovementMINEOLA CIVIC CENTER I…LAKE COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $694,130 · Arts & CultureADDIE E MCFARLAND FOUNDATION INC: $503,964 · Recreation & SportsAPET SPCA: $192,886 · AnimalsMINEOLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $78,069 · Human ServicesMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $64,000 · Human ServicesMINEOLA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $126,500 · EducationTHE MINEOLA COMMUNITY CHEST: $12,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,436,853Community Improvement$1,965,030Arts & Culture$694,130Recreation & Sports$503,964Animals$192,886Human Services$142,069Education$126,500Philanthropy$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINEOLA CIVIC CENTER INC: $1,965,030 over 8y, 70% of budgetMINEOLA MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $1,231,481 over 8y, 71% of budgetMINEOLA YOUTH FOUNDATION: $694,833 over 8y, 68% of budgetLAKE COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $694,130 over 8y, 38% of budgetADDIE E MCFARLAND FOUNDATION INC: $503,964 over 8y, 85% of budgetMINEOLA LEAGUE OF THE ARTS: $392,987 over 8y, 69% of budgetAPET SPCA: $192,886 over 8y, 16% of budgetMINEOLA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $126,500 over 7y, 17% of budgetMINEOLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $78,069 over 5y, 87% of budgetMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $64,000 over 8y, 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 MINEOLA CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MINEOLA MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds MINEOLA YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADDIE E MCFARLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MINEOLA LEAGUE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds APET SPCA ↗
  • Who funds MINEOLA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINEOLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds THE MINEOLA COMMUNITY CHEST ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 19 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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