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Meyer Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Meyer Charitable 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.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$36kHealth$11kReligion$8kAnimals$7kHousing & Shelter$4kEducation$4kFood & Nutrition$3kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$301k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bowling Green State University$1,500
SubZero Mission$1,500
MINISTRY IN MISSION$1,500
Malachi House$1,000
Hannas Home$1,000
Operation Christmas Child$1,000
Extended Housing$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Chad Tough Fpundation$1,000
Veterans and First Responders Foundation$1,000
DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION$1,000
End 68 Hours of Hunger$1,000
Keira Kilbane Foundation$300
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Chad Tough Foundation: $1k → 14%Henry County Christmas Cheer: $3k → 9%Honor Flight: $1k → 13%Veterans Moving Forward: $1k → 4%Willing Warriors: $1k → 7%Chad Tough Foundation: $1k → 14%Henry County Christmas Cheer: $1k → 9%Veterans Moving Forward: $1k → 4%Chad Tough Fpundation: $1k → 14%SubZero Mission: $3k → 9%Henry County Christmas Cheer: $1k → 9%Chad Tough Foundation: $1k → 14%SubZero Mission: $2k → 9%Extended Housing Inc: $1k → 9%Extended Housing: $1k → 9%CHAIRity: $1k → 17%Best Community Resource Center: $1k → 17%Extended Housing: $500 → 9%KIRTLAND AREA SERVICE COUNCIL: $2k → 9%KIRTLAND AREA SERVICE COUNCIL: $1k → 9%Kirtland Area Service Council: $1k → 9%SubZero Mission: $2k → 9%SubZero Mission: $1k → 9%Hannas Home: $1k → 9%DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Meyer Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 63%.

Meyer Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 20 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
19

Total granted

$62k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionMembership BenefitHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • TS
    THE SUB ZERO MISSION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +113%
  • MI
    Ministry in Mission
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +33%
  • HC
    Henry County Christmas Cheer
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • WA
    We Are Raising Men
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • RS
    Rising Star Academy
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +32%
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
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
2
Blessings From the Sky Living

Room board for mental patients vets with PTSD

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3
Vets Returning Home Inc

Veterans services in the form of referrals and other assistance while providing transitional housing to those in need.

Philanthropy
4
Homes Fit for Heroes Inc
Health
5
Andrews Air Force Base Fisher House Inc

Andrews Air Force Base Fisher House, Inc. provides financial support to the Andrews Air Force Base Fisher House, which provides lodging and other types of support for military and veteran families who have a family member who is critically…

Health
6
Beethven Group 4 Heroes Inc

Repair veterans housing

Human Services
7
My Brothers House

Provide long-term and temporary housing for undomiciled U.S. Veterans

Housing & Shelter
8
A Heros Home Inc
—
9
Doughty Home for Veteran Women
—
10
Grace Recovery Homes Inc
Health
11
God Provides Ministry

To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others

Food & Nutrition
12
Veterans Benefits Clearinghouse Development Corporation

Housing provided to low income tenants as well as resident services.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hannahs Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Concerns of Police Survivors: $3,500 · OtherConcerns of Police SurvivorsOperation Christmas Child: $3,500 · OtherOperation Christmas ChildFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCBowling Green State University: $2,500 · OtherBowling Green State UniversityIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherSheldrick Wildlife Trust: $2,000 · OtherEnd 68 Hours of Hunger: $2,000 · OtherWe Are Raising Men: $2,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 · OtherCITY MISSION: $2,000 · OtherKEIRA KILBANE FOUNDATION: $1,400 · Other+14 more: $13,000 · Other+14 moreTHE SUB ZERO MISSION: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE SUB ZERO MISSIONHenry County Christmas Cheer: $4,500 · Human ServicesHenry County Christmas CheerCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATIONKIRTLAND AREA SERVICE COUNCIL INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesKIRTLAND AREA SERVICE COUNCIL INCDEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesDEEPWOOD FOUNDATIONEXTENDED HOUSING INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesEXTENDED HOUSING INCVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC+5 more: $5,000 · Human Services+5 moreMinistry in Mission: $6,500 · Religion+1 more: $100 · ReligionK-9 HERO HAVEN INC: $3,000 · AnimalsHonor Flight Cleveland Inc: $2,000 · Membership BenefitGIVING MEIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HAVEN HOME LLC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$38,900Human Services$32,000Religion$6,600Animals$3,000Membership Benefit$2,000Philanthropy$1,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SUB ZERO MISSION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMinistry in Mission: $6,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHenry County Christmas Cheer: $4,500 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetK-9 HERO HAVEN INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEXTENDED HOUSING INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight Cleveland Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING MEIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE HAVEN HOME LLC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHAIR-ITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetServe Our Willing Warriors: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHannahs Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $100 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Murphy Family Foundat…The Swagelok Foundati…Jerome T Osborne and …The William Bingham F…The Andrews FoundationAvery Dennison Founda…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Cleveland FoundationOH18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust · The William Bingham Foundation · The Andrews Foundation · Avery Dennison Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 43 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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