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Open Meadows Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$126k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 13
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$145k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Open Meadows Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$126k100%
FY20234$14k100%
FY20213$9k100%
FY20203$19k100%
FY201913$27kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$95kEnvironment$50kEmployment$25kCommunity Improvement$9kYouth Development$4kHuman Services$4kCivil Rights$4kScience & Tech$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
NM
HI
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network$50,00013%
Elsie Publishing Institute$25,00013%
Experimental Theatre Project Inc$25,0001n/a
Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation Inc$10,00013%
Pai Foundation$10,00011%
Center of Southwest Culture Inc$7,00011%
Women Make Movies Inc$3,0001n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc$2,00010%
Tlc Family Resource Center$2,0001n/a
Butterfly Dreamz Inc$2,00013%
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All grantees of Open Meadows Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network$50,00013%
Elsie Publishing Institute$25,00013%
Experimental Theatre Project Inc$25,0001n/a
Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation Inc$10,00013%
Pai Foundation$10,00011%
Center of Southwest Culture Inc$7,00011%
Women Make Movies Inc$3,0001n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc$2,00010%
Tlc Family Resource Center$2,0001n/a
Butterfly Dreamz Inc$2,00013%
Create Wisconsin Inc$2,00012%
406 Pride$2,0001n/a
Gals Guide to the Galaxy$2,0001n/a
Cetos Research Organization$2,0001n/a
Literacy Volunteers of America$1,5001n/a

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Open Meadows Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWomen's Earth and Climate Action Network: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetElsie Publishing Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLesbian Herstory Educational Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPai Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCenter of Southwest Culture Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetButterfly Dreamz Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCreate Wisconsin Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Open Meadows Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Open Meadows Foundation Inc 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.

About Open Meadows Foundation Inc

How much does Open Meadows Foundation Inc give?
Open Meadows Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $126,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Open Meadows Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Environment (26%), Employment (13%).
Who are Open Meadows Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Women's Earth and Climate Action Network ($50k), Elsie Publishing Institute ($25k), Experimental Theatre Project Inc ($25k).
Does Open Meadows Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Open Meadows Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Open Meadows Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Open Meadows Foundation Inc based?
Open Meadows Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 31 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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