· Private foundation
The Meade Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $529k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KEUKA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $188,600 |
| GLENN H CURTISS MUSEUM | $185,000 |
| FINGER LAKES BOATING MUSEUM | $155,000 |
| LAKE KEUKA SAILING FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| HAMMONDSPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES | $12,000 |
| MITCHELLSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST GABRIELS WORSHIP SITE OF THE ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF HAMMONDSPORT | $10,000 |
| WELLSPRING FELLOWSHIP OF HAMMONDSPORT CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL OF HAMMONDSPORT | $10,000 |
| FRED & HARRIET TAYLOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $8,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $7,000 |
| CITIZENS HOSE FIRE INC | $4,000 |
| STEUBEN SENIOR SERVICES FUND | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Meade Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
29 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- KHKEUKA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $733k · revenue +195% · 52% of their budget
- FHFRED & HARRIETT TAYLOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +38% · 33% of their budget
- HCHAMMONDSPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF HAMMONDSPORT AREA TRAILS & PARKS INCone grant, 2020 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6k
- UWUNITED WAY TOUR DE KEUKAone grant, 2021 · $250
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide residential living arrangements and care for the terminally ill, helping them prepare for death in their final days of life.
Public library for the city of fulton, ny.
To improve the economic well-being of job seekers and employers in the region by aligning human potential with opportunities in the workplace for the residents of ontario, seneca, wayne, and yates counties in the state of new york.
Collect, preserve, index and make available to the public historical records, documents, text materials etc of steuben county ny
To provide a comprehensive array of services including case management, physician, hospital and nursing home care to adults age 55 and older who are medically eligible for nursing home care
Public library serving the residents of the town of bovina, ny
To provide a loving, home-like atmosphere of support and encouragement during the final months of life for the terminally ill or webster, ny. all care is provided absolutely free of charge, non-discriminatory, to anyone in need.
Improving the quality of chautauqua lake, located in chautauqua county in upstate new york. the organization is concerned about the water quality, especially the proliferation of weeds and algae and their accumulation near the shore and…
Public library
To establish, conduct, operate, and maintain a not for profit ambulance service to serve the people of north seneca county, ny, and to provide first aid from the place of any emergency, accident, or illness, and if necessary, provide…
Its mission shall be to promote and encourage the development and maintenance of library service for public use by inhabitants of the town of stephentown. use by residents of neighboring communities is welcomed.
The purpose and mission of the fenton history center is to provide education and cultural opportunities for the residents of chautauqua county and its visitors through the collection, preservation and exhibition of artifacts and archival…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steuben Senior Services Fund and the most unlike its peers is Hammondsport Community Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FINGER LAKES BOATING MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds KEUKA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRED & HARRIETT TAYLOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HAMMONDSPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN SENIOR SERVICES FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds KEUKA LAKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN ARC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAREFIRST NY INC ↗
- Who funds WILKINS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mercury Aircraft Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Meade Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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