How much does The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation give?

The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $41,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (21%), Environment (18%), Food & Nutrition (15%).

Who are The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($49k), San Francisco Food Bank ($45k), Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy ($29k).

Does The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.

Where is The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation based?

The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation is based in CA.

The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation

The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lee and Linda Meier Family 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.

$41k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$49kEnvironment$43kFood & Nutrition$35kRecreation & Sports$32kHealth$19kCivil Rights$19kYouth Development$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $6k
$10k–50k3 grants · $35k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$665k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK	$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO BAY KEEPER	$2,000
FRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST	$1,000
HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS	$1,000
GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVA	$1,000
MOUNTAIN PLAY ASSOCIATION	$500
Individual grant recipient	$250
NO CA PGA FOUNDATION	$250
Individual grant recipient	$200
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION	$200

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$247k · 32 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$247k

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+18%

Still filing today

78%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +98%
SF
SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +74%
B
Baykeeper
9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +151%

Funded once

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -47%
TP
TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +18%
MC
Meritus College Fund
one grant, 2017 · $4k

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.

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education

The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education

Save the Bay

Our vision is a future where everyone benefits from a healthy san francisco bay, resilient to climate change and ringed by 100,000 acres of vibrant tidal marsh.

Environment

The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment

National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment

San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to promote sustainability in the Bay Area and beyond by engaging communities in avian science, habitat restoration, and education.

Environment

Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Francisco Park Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 53 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/38

Grantees still filing

28/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$76,017Environment$67,200Other$86,642Human Services$14,500Civil Rights$13,500Education$12,250Animals$7,500

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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA22.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · McNabb Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The James Irvine Foundation

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 Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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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