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Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc

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.

$558k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$140,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$18M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving16$558k44%
FY202412$119k25%
FY20239$100k33%
FY20228$124k63%
FY20205$21kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$267kHealth$260kYouth Development$175kArts & Culture$114kHuman Services$56kFood & Nutrition$43kReligion$5kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc$87,67451%
Woodberry Forest School$70,00030%
Family Service of High Point Foundation Inc$55,30017%
Unc Health Foundation Inc$51,75020%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$50,00010%
Linville Foundation Inc$37,50042%
Jack The Bike Man Inc$27,00031%
Sophia Academy$10,00011%
American Cancer Society Inc$7,50010%
High Point Downtown Stadium Foundation$2,5001n/a
Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc$1,00010%
Good Friends of High Point Inc$94311%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($522k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc: $87,674 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWoodberry Forest School: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Service of High Point Foundation Inc: $55,300 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUnc Health Foundation Inc: $51,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLinville Foundation Inc: $37,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetJack The Bike Man Inc: $27,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSophia Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Ministries of High Point Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Friends of High Point Inc: $943 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Foster Foundation IncVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foster Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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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About Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc

How much does Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc give?
Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $558,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (28%), Youth Development (19%).
Who are Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc ($88k), Woodberry Forest School ($70k), Family Service of High Point Foundation Inc ($55k).
Does Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foster Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc based?
Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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