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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.3MHuman Services$832kEducation$533kHealth$498kCommunity Improvement$414kArts & Culture$288kPhilanthropy$213kOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k59 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$22,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC$50,000
GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC$50,000
PAPA KEITH FOR PEOPLE MATTER INC$50,000
URGENT INC$50,000
CENTER FOR EQUITABLE ACCESS AND TREATMENT OF TRAUMA INC$45,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MEXICAN AMERICAN COUNCIL INC: $4k → 15%MEXICAN AMERICAN COUNCIL INC: $2k → 15%THE TRAYVON MARTIN FOUNDATION INC: $38k → 15%THE TRAYVON MARTIN FOUNDATION INC: $38k → 15%OMEGA ACTIVITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 15%HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $40k → 15%HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $30k → 15%URGENT INC: $50k → 15%URGENT INC: $50k → 15%URGENT INC: $10k → 15%CENTER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE INC: $31k → 15%CENTER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE INC: $23k → 15%CENTER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE INC: $15k → 15%MULTI-ETHNIC YOUTH GROUP ASSOCIATION INC: $20k → 15%MULTI-ETHNIC YOUTH GROUP ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 15%THE ROOTS COLLECTIVE CORP: $40k → 15%THE ROOTS COLLECTIVE CORP: $30k → 15%BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC: $100k → 15%BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC: $60k → 15%GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN INC: $40k → 15%GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN INC: $30k → 15%GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN INC: $5k → 15%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 15%YWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $25k → 15%YWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $25k → 15%PROSPERITY SOCIAL & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $35k → 15%PROSPERITY SOCIAL & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $35k → 15%HOPE MISSION INC: $20k → 15%HOPE MISSION INC: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Carrie Meek Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Carrie Meek Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 82 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
51

Total granted

$5.6M
$782k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+24%

Still filing today

66%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalEmploymentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LE
    LADIES EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION PROGRAM INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $255k · revenue +37%
  • BS
    BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $160k · revenue +6%
  • WF
    WOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $130k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • JH
    JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +147%
  • SP
    SURVIVORS PATHWAY CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
  • BT
    BEYOND THE BARS
    one grant, 2023 · $95k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Miami Dade Community Services Inc
Human Services
2
Central Miami Intergroup
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3
Code for Miami Inc

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…

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4
Miami Childrens Initiative Inc

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 Improvement
5
The Miami Girls Foundation Inc
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6
Community Coalition Inc

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…

Employment
7
Florida Mentoring Network Inc

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…

Education
8
University of Miami
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9
A Reflection of Me

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.

Arts & Culture
10
All Florida Arts & Athletics Preparatory Academy Incorporated

provide mental health related services and activities to youth and their families. serving undeserved neighborhoods.

Human Services
11
Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami Inc

To provide services and programs for children.

Youth Development
12
Gang Alternative Inc

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.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oic of South Florida Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/88
Grantees still filing
59/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN CONSTRUCTION CRAFT ACADEMY: $395,000 · OtherURBAN CONSTRUCTION CRAFT ACADEMYHEALING AND JUSTICE CENTER: $200,000 · OtherHEALING AND JUSTICE CENTERPEACE AND PROSPERITY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $182,500 · OtherPEACE AND PROSPERITY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMUMBRELLA OF HOPE: $157,500 · OtherWOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE INC: $130,000 · Other+76 more: $2,139,199 · Other+76 moreCHILDRENS VILLAGE INC: $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDRENS VILLAGE …GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL…BELAFONTE TACOLCY CENTER: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBELAFONTE TACOLCY …OVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentMENTALLY FITT INC: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentSILENT VICTIMS OF CRIME INC D/B/A TINKERBELLS KIDS: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentDO GOOD 41 INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMIAMI YOUTH GARDEN INC: $37,100 · Youth Development+8 more: $136,000 · Youth Development+8 moreBE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesBE STRONG INTE…URGENT INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesURGENT INCThe Trayvon Martin Foundation: $75,000 · Human ServicesThe Trayvon Ma…GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS HOPEFU…Hope for Communities Inc: $70,000 · Human ServicesHope for Commu…Prosperity Social & Community Development Group Inc: $70,000 · Human ServicesProsperity Soc…THE ROOTS COLLECTIVE CORP: $70,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROOTS COLL…CENTER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE INC: $68,130 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR SOC…YWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesYWCA SOUTH FLO…Multi-Ethnic Youth Group Associatio: $35,000 · Human ServicesH O P E MISSION INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesOMEGA ACTIVITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human Services+2 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesFlorida Justice Center Inc: $300,000 · Crime & LegalFlorida Justic…LADIES EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION PROGRAM INC: $255,000 · Crime & LegalLADIES EMPOWER…SURVIVORS PATHWAY CORPORATION: $100,000 · Crime & LegalSURVIVORS PATH…LASHAWNTAY T HOWARD YOUTH OFFENDER CENTER: $52,500 · Crime & LegalLASHAWNTAY T H…CRIMESTOPPERS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalTHE MELISSA INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT INC: $32,500 · Crime & LegalEMPOWERMENT ZONE RE ENTRY INITIATIVE INC: $30,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $38,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC: $100,000 · EducationSEEK FOUNDATION INC: $78,750 · EducationPROJECT TRANSFORMING HOPE INC: $78,000 · EducationAFFIRMING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 · EducationTHE HOME TEAM - MIAMI INC: $52,500 · EducationUPLIFT LITERACY INC: $35,000 · EducationHOPE MURALS INC: $22,000 · Education+4 more: $24,910 · EducationHistoric Hampton House Community: $52,500 · Arts & CultureEL INGENIO INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC: $35,159 · Arts & CultureHued Songs Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOIC OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $120,000 · EmploymentMiami Workers Center Inc: $15,000 · Employment+2 more: $3,500 · Employment
Other$3,204,199Youth Development$1,095,600Human Services$854,130Crime & Legal$843,000Education$443,660Arts & Culture$142,659Employment$138,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDRENS VILLAGE INC: $500,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetFlorida Justice Center Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetLADIES EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION PROGRAM INC: $255,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetBE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC: $160,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE INC: $130,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetOIC OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $120,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetURGENT INC: $110,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC: $105,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR EQUITABLE ACCESS AND TREATMENT OF TRAUMA INC: $105,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSURVIVORS PATHWAY CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetSPROUT UP INC: $81,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetSEEK FOUNDATION INC: $78,750 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMING HOPE INC: $78,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetThe Trayvon Martin Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetGENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHope for Communities Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetCOALITION OF FLORIDA FARMWORKER ORGANIZATIONS INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS INC: $70,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetProsperity Social & Community Development Group Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE ROOTS COLLECTIVE CORP: $70,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetCHILDREN OF INMATES INC: $66,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBELAFONTE TACOLCY CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHistoric Hampton House Community: $52,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC: $52,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLASHAWNTAY T HOWARD YOUTH OFFENDER CENTER: $52,500 over 2y, 56% of budgetAFFIRMING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMENTALLY FITT INC: $52,500 over 2y, 53% of budgetTHE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION OF GREATER GOULDS FLORIDA INC: $52,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE HOME TEAM - MIAMI INC: $52,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetSILENT VICTIMS OF CRIME INC D/B/A TINKERBELLS KIDS: $52,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetYWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRANSITION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetDO GOOD 41 INC: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetEL INGENIO INC: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMIAMI YOUTH GARDEN INC: $37,100 over 2y, 34% of budgetFRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC: $35,159 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetMOTHERS FIGHTING 4 JUSTICE: $35,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetThe Police Athletic League Of North Miami In: $35,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTECH GIRL POWER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetMulti-Ethnic Youth Group Associatio: $35,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCRIMESTOPPERS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetH O P E MISSION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetUPLIFT LITERACY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetTHE MELISSA INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT INC: $32,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetOMEGA ACTIVITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 70% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Miami Foundation IncFL89.4× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carrie Meek Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carrie Meek Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
25get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Carrie Meek Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 140 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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