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Robert E & Ann R Meredith 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS | $5,000 |
| DETROIT RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS IN DEED | $5,000 |
| EASTERSEALS | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS IN DEED | $5,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCATION OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION (ADA) | $500 |
| THE NEUTRAL ZONE | $500 |
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCATION OF AMERICA | $500 |
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 (FY19–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +47% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 21 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- FIFriends In Deed4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +3%
- AAAnn Arbor Symphony Orchestra Inc4× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +47%
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - MUSICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $7k
- PCPATRIOTS CIRCLE THE NATIONAL WWIIone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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. 39 of the 95 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 Friends In Deed ↗
- Who funds Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Neutral Zone ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds ALPHA OMICRON PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOPE 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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Duffy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Vaughan Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation
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 E & Ann R Meredith 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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