How much does The Meacham Foundation give?

The Meacham Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $52,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Meacham Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (17%), Philanthropy (11%), Human Services (10%).

Who are The Meacham Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute ($31k), Solutions for Change Inc ($23k), Young Men's Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties ($16k).

Does The Meacham Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Meacham 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 Meacham Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, The Russell Family Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.

Where is The Meacham Foundation based?

The Meacham Foundation is based in WA.

The Meacham Foundation

The Meacham Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Meacham 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.

$53k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

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, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$59kPhilanthropy$39kHuman Services$36kHousing & Shelter$33kArts & Culture$30kAnimals$27kEducation$24kRecreation & Sports$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,100

Median grant

States reached

$633k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE	$5,100
HARBOR WILDWATCH	$5,000
GIG HARBOR DOWNTOWN WATERFRONT ALLIANCE	$4,040
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK	$3,500
SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION	$3,500
GIG HARBOR NOW	$3,500
YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES	$3,000
JUNEAU HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS	$3,000
KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF GIG HARBOR	$2,500
NORTHWEST SINFONIETTA	$2,250
GIG HARBOR BOATSHOP	$1,900
GREATER GIG HARBOR FOUNDATION	$1,560
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS PENINSULA	$1,300
HARBOR HISTORY MUSEUM	$1,100
DEL MAR WOMENS GIVING COLLECTIVE	$1,100

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, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$306k · 61 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$306k

$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+6%

Still filing today

66%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureHealthOther

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

PW
Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute
8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +49%
YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES
8× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +47%
GH
GIG HARBOR WATERFRONT ALLIANCE
6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +117%

Funded once

AF
AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETYgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +70%
FF
FALCONS FULL COURT CLUB INC
one grant, 2022 · $3k
CF
COWBOYS FOR A CAUSE
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue 0%

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.

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

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

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—

California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment

Turtle Island Restoration Network

To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.

Environment

Galapagos Conservancy Inc

Our organization's mission is "conserving galpagos for nature and community," which we realize by saving imperiled species, restoring ecosystems, and building a more sustainable society in the galapagos archipelago.

—

Global Seafood Alliance Inc

GSA is a global non-governmental organization dedicated to advocacy, education and leadership for promoting responsible seafood practices.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America; the most unlike its peers is Cowboys for a Cause. 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

73 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. 73 of the 101 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)

70/73

Grantees still filing

51/73

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$168,952Human Services$57,350Animals$37,300Arts & Culture$27,680Education$17,500International$17,500Youth Development$16,750

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.

Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA35.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Anne Hampton Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Seattle Foundation · Glein Family Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford 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 Meacham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meacham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

18report 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home