Oklahoma · Private foundation
Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $580k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $812k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $580k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $659k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $343k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $303k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $142k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $106k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of the Plains Inc | $803,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Wichita Collegiate School | $180,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wichita Family Crisis Center | $68,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Guadalupe Clinic Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Envision Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas Humane Society of Wichita Kansas | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas Health Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Simply Hygiene Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Music Theatre Wichita | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($698k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Berry Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Wichita Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Mann Family Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Servant Foundation · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust
- How much does Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust give?
- Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust reported 26 grants totaling $580,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Education (16%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of the Plains Inc ($803k), Wichita Collegiate School ($180k), Wichita Family Crisis Center ($69k).
- Does Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353, Berry Foundation Inc, Ima Foundation.
- Where is Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust based?
- Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust is based in OK.
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