How much does The Mead Foundation Pfdn give?

The Mead Foundation Pfdn reported 37 grants totaling $375,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 49 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2025.

What does The Mead Foundation Pfdn fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (15%), International (12%), Health (9%).

Who are The Mead Foundation Pfdn's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2026: Save The Children Federation Inc ($129k), Camp Kids Are Kids Chicago ($115k), Good Grief Inc ($108k).

Does The Mead Foundation Pfdn fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mead Foundation Pfdn accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Mead Foundation Pfdn?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Toledo Community Foundation Inc, The O-I Charities Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.

Where is The Mead Foundation Pfdn based?

The Mead Foundation Pfdn is based in OH.

The Mead Foundation Pfdn

The Mead Foundation Pfdn at a glance

· Private foundation

The Mead Foundation Pfdn

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$375k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$271kInternational$208kHealth$156kEducation$140kFood & Nutrition$122kRecreation & Sports$117kAnimals$80kPhilanthropy$70kOther$0

02FY2026 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k21 grants · $69k
$10k–50k16 grants · $306k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SPECIAL SPACES	$30,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN	$30,000
LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL	$25,000
GRACE FOUNDATION	$25,000
HOSPICE OF NW OHIO	$25,000
GOOD GRIEF	$25,000
CAMP KIDS ARE KIDS CHICAGO	$25,000
OAK HILLS HIGH SCHOOL	$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA	$16,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME	$15,000
MIAMI UNIVERSITY	$15,000
AMIGOS FOR CHRIST	$15,000
LONE STAR BULLDOG CLUB	$10,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$10,000
GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA	$10,000

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 (FY22–26, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 48 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2026, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%

+25%

Still filing today

50%

85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsInternationalHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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
5× · 2022–2026 · $101k · revenue +13%
HO
HOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO
5× · 2022–2026 · $81k · revenue +16%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +59%

Funded once

PW
PROJECTS WITH CARE INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $62k · revenue +467%
B
BABY2BABYgraduated
one grant, 2025 · $30k · revenue +463%
CF
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +12%

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.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health

Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health

Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals

The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health

Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education

American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health

Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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, 2017–2026.

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. 38 of the 66 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)

38/38

Grantees still filing

24/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$844,433International$259,000Health$174,500Human Services$136,000Recreation & Sports$122,000Food & Nutrition$50,500Animals$49,500

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.

Toledo Community Foundation IncOH15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Mead Foundation Pfdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mead Foundation Pfdn. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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