· Private foundation
The H T Mead Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k25 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $657k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DAYTON FOUNDATION FBO DUDLEY MEAD | $131,400 |
| THE DAYTON FOUNDATION FBO WHITTAKER MEAD | $131,400 |
| PRINCETON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FBO MARY G MEAD HAGEN | $131,400 |
| BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FBO DAN MEAD | $131,400 |
| MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FBO GEORGE H MEAD | $131,400 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $4,000 |
| BERKSHIRE TACONIC FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE DAYTON FOUNDATION | $3,270 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSICAL STUDY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WESTMINSTER CHOIR COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| BFOTM SLIPPERY HILL PROJECT | $1,000 |
| THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE | $730 |
| ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL | $700 |
| WHITE DOVE CIRCLE OF LIGHT & LOVE INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% 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.
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.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethel Walker School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Therapeutic Riding Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 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 CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCORPORATED DBA THE MIAMI VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds OLD TIME MUSIC GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTHUR MORGAN INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV ↗
- Who funds THE TANDANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE MIAMI CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WARREN COUNTY -OHIO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
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 Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Levin Family Foundation · Greene County Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 H T Mead 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Isles Inc — 21% 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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