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Shrieking Meadow Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRANDYWINE BAROQUE | $155,000 |
| PLECTRA MUSIC | $95,000 |
| THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT | $37,500 |
| OBERLIN COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY | $11,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $7,500 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $4,500 |
| FARM & WILDERNESS | $3,000 |
| GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $2,500 |
| ALASKA CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE | $1,500 |
| TATNALL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| DELAWARE THEATER COMPANY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BBBRANDYWINE BAROQUE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $868k · revenue +65% · 72% of their budget
- PMPLECTRA MUSIC INC8× · 2018–2025 · $760k · revenue +25% · 79% of their budget
- SOSOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT9× · 2017–2025 · $391k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- BCBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Artgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +144%
- RRAREone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +2%
- DODefenders of Wildlifegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +43%
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.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Nature Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Plectra Music Inc. 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 57 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% 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 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 31 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 BRANDYWINE BAROQUE INC ↗
- Who funds PLECTRA MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds COCO POINT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TATNALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
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: Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Ederic Foundation Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Shrieking Meadow 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Brandywine Baroque Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Music School of Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Tatnall School 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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