· Private foundation
Paul & Jane Meyer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $705k
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENTORING ALLIANCE | $375,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY - GIVE LIGHT CAMPAIGN | $164,388 |
| HAGGAI INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| WACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE | $126,000 |
| COMPASSION MINISTRIES | $114,972 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY - HINSON CHAIR IN SCRIPTURES | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS FOR LIFE | $48,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $29,880 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $26,400 |
| LEGACY FAMILY MINISTRIES | $19,000 |
| HARRIS CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH | $18,000 |
| JOHNSON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $15,000 |
| PRESTONWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $12,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- MAMENTORING ALLIANCE3× · 2022–2024 · $925k · revenue +73%
COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO3× · 2022–2024 · $332k · revenue +54% · 26% of their budget- WEWACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $226k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- BBBAYLOR BEAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1.4M
BAYLOR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +7%- BUBAYLOR UNIVERSITY - FOSTER PAVILION PHASE 1one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.
Meals on wheels waco nourishes the bodies, minds, and spirits of older adults in the heart of texas through meals, transportation, activities, and volunteer support.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Creative waco's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.
To foster the independence and dignity of homebound seniors in montgomery county by providing them with nutritious meals, transportation, and caring connections.
To provide emergency/supplemental assistance in the form of food, clothing, household items, utility, rent and mortgage aid to people in need in the waco community.also provides case management assistance to people wanting to become…
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compassion Ministries of Waco and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 40 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 MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO ↗
- Who funds WACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MCLENNAN COUNTY PACK OF HOPE DBA PACK OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds WACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY ↗
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: United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Magnolia Foundation · The Fentress Foundation · Christian Mission Concerns · Cooper Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Waco Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Paul & Jane Meyer Family 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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