· Private foundation
The Dennis Meyer Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k8 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST STEPHEN & ST AGNES SCHOOL | $21,419 |
| WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY | $18,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL CATHEDRAL SCHOOL | $2,611 |
| ST ALBANS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| INOVA SCHAR CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,468 |
| LIFE WITH CANCER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| VNA | $1,000 |
| HOMELESS CHILDREN FUND | $1,000 |
| WHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $350 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2023 · $23k · revenue +47%- TCTRINITY COLLEGE3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +96%
- MCMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +98%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 65 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA ↗
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: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dennis Meyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dennis Meyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Whole Family Health Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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