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Robert and Betty Meyer Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$441kEducation$105kHuman Services$101kHealth$100kEnvironment$40kRecreation & Sports$35kHousing & Shelter$31kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEYER THEATER$50,000
GREEN BAY BONTANICAL GARDEN INC$15,000
VETERANS 1ST OF NEW$12,500
BLUE LOTUS CENTER$10,000
CURATIVE CONNECTIONS$5,000
INDEPENDENCE FIRST$5,000
FOUNDATIONS HEALTH AND WHOLENESS$3,000
ACHIEVE BROWN COUNTY$2,500
UNITY HOSPICE$2,000
CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY$2,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER$1,500
FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Leader Dogs for the Blind: $3k → 8%Down Syndrome Association of WI: $3k → 7%We Empowher: $3k → 9%Clothing Across America: $500 → 11%Leader Dogs for the Blind: $2k → 8%Golden House: $5k → 10%Leader Dogs for the Blind: $2k → 8%Golden House: $2k → 10%Independence First: $8k → 17%IndependenceFirst: $5k → 17%IndependenceFirst: $5k → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $5k → 17%Independence First: $5k → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $5k → 17%IndependenceFirst: $3k → 17%Down Syndrome Assoc of Wisconsin: $1k → 17%UNITY HOSPICE: $2k → 10%Family Services: $6k → 10%Family Services of Northeast WI: $3k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$707k · 22 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
36

Total granted

$707k
$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+9%

Still filing today

82%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MT
    MEYER THEATRE CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +5% · 27% of their budget
  • ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $39k · revenue +8%
  • EE
    EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • NR
    NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -73%
  • TN
    THE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -57%
  • PR
    PATRIOT RACING PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services
2
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
3
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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4
Northwoods Inc of Wisconsin

Service for disabled adults

Human Services
5
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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6
New Community Shelter Foundation Inc

New community shelter foundation, inc. is organized and operated for charitable, educational, religious, and scientific purposes exclusively for the benefit and support of the greater green bay community foundation, inc.

Housing & Shelter
7
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
8
Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua

The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…

Health
9
Residential Services of Northeastern Minnesota Inc

Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.

Human Services
10
Glenhaven Inc

To provide therapeutic, preventative, and restorative care to our residents that will assist them to obtain and maintain an optimum level of health and well-being.

Health
11
Downtown Green Bay Inc

Dgbi works to revitalize the social and economic climate of downtown green bay.

Youth Development
12
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independence First Inc and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%12%<5yr12%3%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr18%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%7%<5yr12%1%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr18%40%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/42
the rest of the field
10%
1,133/11,126

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 61 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/41
Grantees still filing
25/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEYER THEATRE CORPORATION — $350,000 · Arts & CultureMEYER THEATRE CORPORATIONTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCBROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $18,000 · Arts & CultureNortheast Wisconsin Technical College — $40,000 · OtherNortheast Wisconsin Technical Co…Blue Lotus Center — $30,000 · OtherBlue Lotus CenterNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INCFOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INC — $18,000 · OtherFOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS I…Prevent Blindness Wisconsin — $11,500 · OtherHOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC — $10,000 · OtherPATRIOT RACING PROJECT — $10,000 · OtherBaird Creek Preservation Fund — $10,000 · OtherTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherVETERANS 1ST OF NEW INC — $12,500 · Other+24 more — $79,700 · Other+24 moreINDEPENDENCE FIRST INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC — $9,600 · Human ServicesGOLDEN HOUSE INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $6,500 · Human ServicesOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesWE EMPOWHER INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN OF THE HEART-GREATER LACROSSE AREA INC — $2,500 · Human Services+3 more — $3,500 · Human ServicesST NORBERT COLLEGE INC — $38,825 · EducationNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationLITERACY GREEN BAY INC — $8,500 · EducationACHIEVE BROWN COUNTY INC — $2,500 · EducationEINSTEIN PROJECT INC — $2,500 · EducationEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY — $27,000 · HealthFall Prevention Alliance of Northeas — $5,000 · HealthRecovery Foundation Inc — $5,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · HealthDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $2,500 · HealthCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC — $32,000 · EmploymentGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $30,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$408,000Other$256,700Human Services$71,600Education$62,325Health$44,500Employment$32,000Environment$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEYER THEATRE CORPORATION — $350,000 over 8y, 27% of budgetST NORBERT COLLEGE INC — $38,825 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE FIRST INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC — $32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY — $27,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY INC — $12,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPrevent Blindness Wisconsin — $11,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC — $9,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY GREEN BAY INC — $8,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN HOUSE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC SYMPHONY OF GREEN BAY INC — $6,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFall Prevention Alliance of Northeas — $5,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetRecovery Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDHOOD SAFETY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWE EMPOWHER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN OF THE HEART-GREATER LACROSSE AREA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetEINSTEIN PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTransformation House Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLOTHING ACROSS AMERICA — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Greater Green Bay Com…George Kress Foundati…Wisconsin Public Serv…Byron L Walter Family…John and Engrid Meng …K C Stock Foundation …Schneider National Fo…Cornerstone Foundatio…Little Rapids Corpora…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Community Foundation …
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI60.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Byron L Walter Family Trust Xxxxx0002 · John and Engrid Meng Inc · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region 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 Robert and Betty 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Robert and Betty Meyer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert and Betty Meyer Family 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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