· Private foundation
Meriden Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k112 grants · $440k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $796k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER | $43,000 |
| NEW OPPORTUNITES OF GREATER MERIDEN | $32,000 |
| MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $32,000 |
| OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS PARISH | $28,750 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $28,750 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $28,750 |
| GIRLS INC | $28,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN | $27,000 |
| MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| WOMEN & FAMILIES CENTER | $25,000 |
| BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $24,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $23,000 |
| FRIEND OF THE MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MDN & WLFD INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $456k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
247 repeat relationships: 114 still active in FY2024, 133 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMidstate Medical Center8× · 2017–2024 · $692k · revenue +106%
- MBMERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +76%
TRINITY COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $204k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- COCITY OF MERIDEN YOUTH SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MCMIDSTATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -14%
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.
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
How this is measured
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 382 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Midstate Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds Change The Play Inc ↗
- Who funds Skills Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL SABBY SPONSORSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS 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: Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The James H Napier Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · The John G Martin Foundation · The Petit Family Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Mary V Ricci Trust · Friends Fiduciary Corporation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Meriden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meriden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Midstate Arc Inc: 94% of income from government
- Kuhn Employment Opportunities Inc: 91% of income from government
- Workforce Alliance Inc: 77% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc: 70% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc: 47% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc: 46% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc: 42% of income from government
- Beat the Street Community Center Inc: 24% of income from government
- Meriden Farmers Market Inc: 22% of income from government
- Ball Headz Inc: 20% of income from government
- Women and Families Center: 18% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc: 18% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc: 10% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 7% of income from government
- Albertus Magnus College: 6% of income from government
- Center Preschool Inc: 6% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc: 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- Springfield College: 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
- Meriden-Wallingford Chrysalis Inc: 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- Bentley University: 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
- Social Sabby Sponsorships Inc: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Midstate Medical Center: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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