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The Meade Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$110k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
7
Organizations funded FY2022
29%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$4,100
Largest grant, FY2022
$52,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 29% of the organizations The Meade Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20227$110k29%
FY20215$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Education$114kHousing & Shelter$4kHuman Services$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Villanova University$56,00020%
Hope Partnership for Education$28,00021%
Friends Select School$27,5002n/a
Project Home$4,10010%
Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti$1,00020%
Catholic Charities Appeal of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia$1001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Meade Foundation

How much does The Meade Foundation give?
The Meade Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $109,700 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does The Meade Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (96%), Housing & Shelter (3%), Human Services (1%).
Who are The Meade Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Villanova University ($56k), Hope Partnership for Education ($28k), Friends Select School ($28k).
Does The Meade Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Meade 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 Meade Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Meade Foundation based?
The Meade Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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