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Robert R Meyer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$1.9MArts & Culture$1.9MEducation$1.8MHuman Services$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.1MFood & Nutrition$567kEnvironment$555kHousing & Shelter$455kOther$0
02FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $860k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$150,000
GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES$125,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$100,000
BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS$100,000
RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY$75,000
FREEDOM RAIN INC DBA LOVELADY CENTER$60,000
16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH$50,000
TERRIFIC NEW THEATRE$50,000
HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY$50,000
FRESHWATER LAND TRUST$50,000
ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$50,000
BROTHER BRYAN MISSION$40,000
I3 ACADEMY$40,000
FIRST LIGHT INC$40,000
OASIS COUNSELING FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN$36,500
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 (FY18–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $20k → 16%KING'S HOME: $15k → 7%TERRIFIC NEW THEATRE: $25k → 16%TERRIFIC NEW THEATRE: $15k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%UNLESS U: $20k → 16%FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $15k → 16%FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $15k → 16%FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 16%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $35k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE: $30k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $30k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICES: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICES: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICES: $20k → 16%MOTHERS MILK BANK OF ALABAMA: $12k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $125k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $20k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $20k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $15k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $15k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $50k → 16%TERRIFIC NEW THEATRE: $50k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $40k → 16%BROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $40k → 16%BROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $40k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $35k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $35k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $35k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $25k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $25k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $25k → 16%BROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $25k → 16%BROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $25k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $25k → 16%BROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $20k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $20k → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
CT
MO
VA
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 101 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
44

Total granted

$11M
$859k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+9%

Still filing today

82%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $765k · revenue +41%
  • RM
    RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $475k · revenue +83%
  • BL
    BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF ALABAMA
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • MS
    METROPOLITAN SCHOOL ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • Samford Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +59%

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
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
2
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
3
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
4
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
5
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health
6
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
7
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

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8
Aids Alabama Inc

Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.

Health
9
The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

—
10
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
11
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
12
Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc

Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham and the most unlike its peers is Desert Island Supply Co. 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 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/121
the rest of the field
15%
626/4,042

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

119 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. 119 of the 158 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/119
Grantees still filing
81/119
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMFREEDOM RAIN INC DBA LOVELADY CENTER — $330,000 · OtherFREEDOM RAIN INC DBA LOVELADY CENTERALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $280,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $207,000 · OtherBirmingham Zoo Inc — $250,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $232,000 · OtherSOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $200,000 · Other+72 more — $3,798,179 · Other+72 moreGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $195,000 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE M…FIRST LIGHT INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGHT I…BROTHER BRYAN MISSION — $160,000 · Human ServicesBROTHER BRYAN…COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FUR…COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE — $115,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY GRI…PATHWAYS INC — $115,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS INCTerrific New Theatre Inc — $90,000 · Human ServicesTerrific New …THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDRY M…KID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM — $58,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $50,000 · Human Services+10 more — $170,000 · Human Services+10 moreTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $200,000 · HealthTHE BELL CEN…Oasis Counseling for Women and Children — $171,500 · HealthOasis Counse…SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $155,055 · HealthSIGHT SAVERS…SMILE-A-MILE — $137,333 · HealthSMILE-A-MILELAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $120,000 · HealthLAKESHORE FO…MITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $100,000 · HealthMITCHELL'S P…CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $90,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…VAX 2 STOP CANCER — $80,000 · HealthVAX 2 STOP C…CAHABA VALLEY HEALTH CARE INC — $80,000 · HealthCAHABA VALLE…THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION — $50,000 · Health+10 more — $217,400 · Health+10 moreRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC — $475,000 · Arts & CultureRED MOUNTAIN…BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC — $275,000 · Arts & CultureBIRMINGHAM L…MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $175,000 · Arts & CultureMCWANE SCIEN…THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STATE OF…REV BIRMINGHAM INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureREV BIRMINGH…SIDEWALK FILM CENTER AND CINEMA INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureSIDEWALK FIL…BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $52,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $50,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $765,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA — $182,500 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FO…UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $150,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE — $45,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $45,000 · PhilanthropyI3 ACADEMY — $160,000 · EducationBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $130,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL PARTNERS — $120,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $75,000 · EducationSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $56,000 · EducationTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $55,000 · EducationSamford University — $50,000 · EducationLITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $45,000 · Education+7 more — $93,500 · EducationWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $150,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA — $135,000 · Community ImprovementCahaba River Society Inc — $90,000 · Community ImprovementRotaract Club of Birmingham Foundation — $65,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $63,000 · Community ImprovementRotaract Club of Birmingham Inc — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$5,697,179Human Services$1,433,000Health$1,401,288Arts & Culture$1,357,000Philanthropy$1,187,500Education$784,500Community Improvement$528,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $765,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC — $475,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC — $275,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $232,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $207,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $200,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $195,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA — $182,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC — $180,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $175,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetOasis Counseling for Women and Children — $171,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetBROTHER BRYAN MISSION — $160,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetI3 ACADEMY — $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $155,055 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC — $150,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $150,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC — $150,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetFRESHWATER LAND TRUST — $150,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE — $137,333 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA — $135,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $125,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBETTER BASICS INC — $125,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetPRESCHOOL PARTNERS — $120,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $117,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE — $115,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetPATHWAYS INC — $115,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $110,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGLENWOOD INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC — $90,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $90,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetREV BIRMINGHAM INC — $90,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTerrific New Theatre Inc — $90,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc — $90,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetSIDEWALK FILM CENTER AND CINEMA INC — $85,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetVAX 2 STOP CANCER — $80,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCAHABA VALLEY HEALTH CARE INC — $80,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $79,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER — $75,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Oasis Counseling for Women and Children ↗
  • Who funds BROTHER BRYAN MISSION ↗
  • Who funds I3 ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESHWATER LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
  • Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTER BASICS INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗

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.

Susan Mott Webb Chari…Protective Life Found…The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Hill Crest Foundation…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…Mike and Gillian Good…Alabama Power Foundat…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Altecstyslinger Found…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…The Maynard Nexsen Fo…
Susan Mott Webb Charitable TrustAL184.6× affinity88 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · The Maynard Nexsen 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 R Meyer 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%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Apt Foundation Inc — 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 R Meyer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert R Meyer 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 158 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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