· Private foundation
The Carrie Meek Foundation Inc
TO IMPROVE THE OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE AND BUILD A STRONGER COMMUNITY BY ENCOURAGING INVESTMENT AND PARTNERSHIPS IN THE DIVERSE URBAN INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOODS.
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 $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS VILLAGE INC | $300,000 |
| URBAN CONSTRUCTION CRAFT ACADEMY | $197,500 |
| PEACE AND PROSPERITY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $182,500 |
| FLORIDA JUSTICE CENTER INC | $120,000 |
| SURVIORS HELPING SURVIVORS COLLABORATION | $100,000 |
| HEALING AND JUSTICE CENTER | $100,000 |
| LADIES EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION PROGRAM | $90,000 |
| UMBRELLA OF HOPE | $78,750 |
| BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC | $60,000 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE INC | $55,000 |
| URGENT INC | $50,000 |
| PAPA KEITH FOR PEOPLE MATTER INC | $50,000 |
| GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| OIC OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC | $45,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $854k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Carrie Meek Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
82 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k 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
- LELADIES EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION PROGRAM INC4× · 2021–2024 · $255k · revenue +37%
- BSBE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $160k · revenue +6%
- WFWOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $130k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- JHJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +147%
- SPSURVIVORS PATHWAY CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
- BTBEYOND THE BARSone grant, 2023 · $95k
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.
Supporting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through open and transparent governments. Building infrastructures connecting people, businesses, and non-profits through localized data. Equipping institutions and communities with modern tools…
The mission is to create a community-based network that develops coordinates and provides quality education accessible health care youth development programs opportunities for employment and safe neighborhoods for children and families…
Community coalition, inc. is a local non-profit 501(c)(3) agency that has been serving miami-dade county residents since 1998. our agency is committed to providing services to those who need assistance and guidance to meet their needs. we…
Florida mentoring network empowers young people ages 13 to 25 through a proven process of growth, connection, and skill building. we believe in "trusting the process"a journey where consistent mentoring, meaningful relationships, and…
To provide youth, artists, and families in underserved communities, communities at-large, and visitors of South Florida, exposure to the arts, self and community growth programs, and income opportunities to youth and artists workforce.
provide mental health related services and activities to youth and their families. serving undeserved neighborhoods.
To provide services and programs for children.
To build character that lasts in children and families through positive alternatives to crime, violence, dependency, and delinquency by offering a holistic approach to their academic, physical, social, economic, and spiritual development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oic of South Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Equitable Access and Treatment of Trauma 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 14 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 140 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 CHILDRENS VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Justice Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LADIES EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE INC ↗
- Who funds OIC OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds URGENT INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EQUITABLE ACCESS AND TREATMENT OF TRAUMA INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVORS PATHWAY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PAPA KEITH FOR PEOPLE MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPROUT UP INC ↗
- Who funds SEEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT TRANSFORMING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Trayvon Martin Foundation ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF FLORIDA FARMWORKER ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Hope for Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Prosperity Social & Community Development Group Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROOTS COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF INMATES INC ↗
- Who funds BELAFONTE TACOLCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION OF GREATER GOULDS FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME TEAM - MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds LASHAWNTAY T HOWARD YOUTH OFFENDER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Historic Hampton House Community ↗
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: The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Peacock Foundation Inc · Hfsf Grants Management Inc · The Kirk Foundation · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · South Florida Sports Foundation 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 The Carrie Meek Foundation Inc 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.
- Omega Activity Center Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Oic of South Florida Inc — 89% of income from government
- Survivors Pathway Corporation — 53% of income from government
- Greater Miami Service Corps — 36% of income from government
- Be Strong International Inc — 19% of income from government
- Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida Inc — 14% of income from government
- Hued Songs Inc — 12% of income from government
- Florida Memorial University Inc — 11% of income from government
- Prosperity Social & Community Development Group Inc — 10% of income from government
- El Ingenio Inc — 3% of income from government
- Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations Inc — 3% of income from government
- Belafonte Tacolcy Center — 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Opa-Locka Community Development Corporation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Justice Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ywca South Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Urgent Inc — 0% of income from government
- Affirming Youth Foundation 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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