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Meyer Family 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.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$8k
Largest
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$118kReligion$108kHealth$46kCommunity Improvement$42kPublic Benefit$33kEducation$30kInternational$26kEnvironment$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$8,000
ST LUKE'S NEW LIFE CENTER$6,000
MN MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION$6,000
SAMARATINS PURSE$5,000
ANDREW WOMACK MINISTRIES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$5,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FLINT$5,000
JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES HANDS OF HOPE$4,000
TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK$4,000
GROSSE ILE LAND CONSERVANCY$4,000
JILL'S HOUSE$4,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$3,000
COMMUNITIES FIRST$3,000
CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT$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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IMPACT 100 GENESEE COUNTY: $1k → 16%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

WA
MN
IL
MI
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
KS
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$406k · 27 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
8

Total granted

$406k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
-4%

Still filing today

59%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
ReligionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitInternationalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +50%
  • MM
    MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +115%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • JA
    JONI AND FRIENDSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +31%
  • AC
    ALLENDER CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • OD
    OPEN DOORS USA
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization

The lausanne movement exists to activate the body of christ to accelerate global mission together through convening global influencers, creating biblically grounded missional content, fostering catalytic collaboration, and equipping…

Religion
3
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
4
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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5
Visionsynergy

Our mission is to accelerate the great commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward spiritual breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world.

International
6
Global Health Ministry

We, global health ministry and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. global health ministry is a member of trinity health.

International
7
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
8
Baptist Center for Global Concerns

The center shares christ's peace by embracing and addressing the world's weighty concerns through feeding, educating, and caring for those who hunger for change.

Human Services
9
Christians in Commerce Intl

To encourage and equip christians to be god's presence in the workplace by the power of the holy spirit, exercising faith, integrity, and excellence.

Philanthropy
10
Living Water International

Living Water International ("Living Water") exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities in 17 developing countries acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience "living water" - the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Human Services
11
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
12
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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

23 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. 23 of the 42 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Luke N E W Life Center Inc: $24,550 · OtherSt Luke N E W Life Center IncGROSSE ILE LAND CONSERVANCY: $19,000 · OtherGROSSE ILE LAND CONSERVANCYFlint Public Library: $18,000 · OtherFlint Public LibraryANDREW WOMACK MINISTRIES: $16,000 · OtherANDREW WOMACK MINISTRIESMCLEAN BIBLE CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherMCLEAN BIBLE CHURCHHAND OF HOPE: $13,000 · OtherHAND OF HOPEIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUM-FLINT SCHOOL OF NURSING: $12,000 · OtherHURLEY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherHURLEY FOUNDATIONCommunities First Inc: $17,400 · OtherCommunities First IncMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $10,000 · Other+19 more: $60,600 · Other+19 moreWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $57,100 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $13,000 · ReligionTRINITY CHRISTIAN CENTER OF SANTA ANA: $10,000 · ReligionHEALING CENTER INTERNATIONAL: $9,000 · ReligionTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,850 · Public BenefitMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $30,120 · PhilanthropyJunior League of Flint Inc: $24,000 · Community ImprovementFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $12,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $9,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $2,000 · International
Other$238,550Human Services$58,100Religion$32,000Public Benefit$30,850Philanthropy$30,120Community Improvement$24,000International$23,000

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 budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $57,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $30,120 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke N E W Life Center Inc: $24,550 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJunior League of Flint Inc: $24,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunities First Inc: $17,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN CENTER OF SANTA ANA: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING CENTER INTERNATIONAL: $9,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAST WELL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT100 GENESEE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St Luke N E W Life Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Junior League of Flint Inc ↗
  • Who funds HURLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Communities First Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN CENTER OF SANTA ANA ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds HEALING CENTER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE LAST WELL INC ↗
  • Who funds Center of the American Experiment ↗
  • Who funds EDIBLE FLINT ↗

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.

Community Foundation of Greater FlintMI19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Foundation for Flint · Consumers Energy Foundation · Czmer Family Foundation · Nartel Family Foundation · The Williamson Foundation Inc · Anna Paulina Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Ruth Mott Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 42 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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