· Private foundation
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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICE HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE | $5,000 |
| CENTRO LATINO CENTER | $5,000 |
| TOKEN 3 CLUB | $4,800 |
| DARE TO CARE FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| SIMPSONVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $200 |
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 (FY17–19, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IHICE HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC4× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +1%
- OCOPERATION CARE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +90%
- THTHE HOPE CENTER INC5× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +104%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 36 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 ICE HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mike Meinze Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike Meinze Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Mike Meinze Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Mike Meinze Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
Play a game based on Mike Meinze’s filings →