· Private foundation
The Mead 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Charities Aid Foundation America | $4,000 |
| American Friends of the National Gallery London | $3,845 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART | $2,660 |
| Harvard University | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
To encourage appreciation and understanding of the art of portraiture through support of the operations and activities of the national portrait gallery in london and its collaboration with american arts and academic institutions.
>to conduct activities which are exclusively charitable, literary, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. >to sponsor art exhibitions and loans of art works throughout the united states which…
The American Friends of the English Heritage was formed with the purpose of promoting the United Kingdom-Based charity English Heritage (ENGLISH-HERRITAGE.ORG.UK) in the United States through Educational activities and supporing English…
The fund is dedicated to informing alumni friends and corporations about the london school of economics and raising funds in support of its mission.
The corporation is organized and operates exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The organization continuously raises funds for the benefit of the london academy of music and dramatic art, and to support the academy's american scholarships fund.
To support the kings college mission and initiatives, to support usa scholars program, the kings college london annual fund and various kings college london based research projects.
The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…
The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…
American friends of the british museum, inc. (afbm) was established in 1989 as a u.s. not-for-profit organization. the principal activity of afbm is to raise awareness of the activities and collections of the british museum among americans…
To support the financial future of the london philharmonic orchestra's concerts, exclusive events, and tours in the united states and the united kingdom.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE DRUMTHWACKET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON FRIENDS & ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON INC ↗
- Who funds The Michael Wolk Heart Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PESTALOZZI US CHILDRENS CHARITY INC ↗
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 Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mead Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mead Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
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