· Private foundation
The Meade Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL OF HAMMONDSPORT | $10,000 |
| WELLSPRING FELLOWSHIP OF HAMMONDSPORT CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FRED & HARRIET TAYLOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF HAMMONDSPORT | $10,000 |
| MITCHELLSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST GABRIELS WORSHIP SITE OF THE ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $8,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $7,000 |
| CITIZENS HOSE FIRE INC | $4,000 |
| STEUBEN SENIOR SERVICES FUND | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Meade Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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 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…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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: Mercury Aircraft Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Meade Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meade Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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