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Mike Meinze 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRO LATINO CENTER | $5,000 |
| ICE HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE | $5,000 |
| TOKEN 3 CLUB | $4,800 |
| SIMPSONVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| DARE TO CARE FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- IHICE HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC4× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +1%
- OCOPERATION CARE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +90%
- THTHE HEALING PLACE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CUCENTENARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $2k
- FLFeed Louisville Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +31%
- PRPIGEONS ROOST INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Supportive housing and substance use disorder treatment prorgrams serve the community by providing support and counseling to families and individuals who struggle with substance use disorders, homelessness, mental illness and/or hiv/aids.
To reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…
To provide substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation programs to women in-and-around the memphis tennessee area.
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
Rehabilitation of adult alcoholics and drug addicts.
Healing House, Inc. is a substance use disorder recovery organization. Our mission is to enrich the lives and spiritual well-being of all we serve and improve the safety and welfare of our community by equipping each participant with…
Re:center ministries reconciles homeless and hurting people to god, family and community by the power of christ in partnership with the local church.
The mission of Greater Louisville Behavioral Health is to provide services surrounding behavioral health and substance abuse, especially to those in the criminal justice system
To provide temporary housing for substance abusers
Hope house rescue mission strives to eliminate homelessness. our mission is "to break the cycle of poverty and despair... one life at a time." we provide physical, emotional, mental and spiritual resources regardless of race, religion or…
The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to provide excellent alcohol and drug treatment programs and services, temporary shelter for the homeless, and food for the hungry, in a caring, christian environment.
To provide non-hospital, in-patient treatment to adult men and women recovering from drug and alcohol dependence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Healing Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Community Clinic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ICE HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Feed Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PIGEONS ROOST INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRHAVEN RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Family Community Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Judge Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mike Meinze Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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