· Private foundation
Mereo Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $7,513 |
| HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $7,001 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| HESED HOUSE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $2,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $2,000 |
| SELF REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
| ALL HANDS & HEARTS | $1,500 |
| SEWA INTERNATIONAL | $1,500 |
| AKSHAYA PATRA USA | $1,500 |
| HINDU HERITAGE ENDOWMENT | $1,001 |
| SRI AYYAPPA SWAMI TEMPLE | $1,001 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,001 |
| BARN SANCTUARY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Mereo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 39%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HAHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +47%
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +13%
- PAPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
- BBACK2SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $1k
- MCMA CENTER CHICAGOone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
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.
Working together to create a just and sustainable world through transformative farmer training that nourishes communities and the Earth.
The organization is the only international buddhist animal rights/advocacy organization in the world. we educate and advocate for vegetarian diets.
Rise against hunger, inc. is an international hunger relief non-profit organization that is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime. rise against hunger distributes food and other…
World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
Harvest Bridge equips South Asian Christians to serve their communities more effectively. With our assistance, people and communities in South Asia are transformed by the love of Christ.
Promoting well being of individuals through the education and assistance of mindful living, meditation, and education of vedic and indian practices.
Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
Organic seed alliance puts the power of seed into the hands of growers. our work promotes an abundant and diverse supply of organic seed, tended in perpetuity by skilled, diverse and interconnected communities of seed stewards.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds HINDU HERITAGE ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds BARN SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VITILIGO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mereo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mereo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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