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The Meb Maintaining Excellent Balance Foundation

Empower youth to maintain balanced lives, engage youth in academics, and provide opportunities for youth to learn positive life skills through sports.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
Largest
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$51kEducation$17kPhilanthropy$6kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $34,579, the rows itemized in this filing. The $70,239 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,660 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New York Road Runners$16,000
Boston Athletic Association$7,500
Eritrean Culteral and Devel$6,000
Greater LA Education Fndn$5,079
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Dreamfar High School Marathon: $6k → 7%Eritrean Culteral and Devel: $6k → 8%Dave McGillivray Finish Str: $6k → 10%Boston Athletic Association: $8k → 16%Greater LA Education Fndn: $5k → 14%New York Road Runners: $16k → 17%Boston Athletic Association: $7k → 16%New York Road Runners: $11k → 17%Boston Educational Dev Fndn: $6k → 16%New York Road Runners: $9k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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 field
04the grantee network

7 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $36,200 · OtherNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INCTHE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $14,474 · OtherTHE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCDREAMFAR HIGH SCHOOL MARATHON: $6,000 · EducationDREAMFAR HIGH S…GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,079 · EducationGREATER LOS ANG…ERITREAN CULTURAL AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $6,000 · Arts & CultureDAVE MCGILLIVRAY FINISH STRONG FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$56,674Education$11,079Arts & Culture$6,000Philanthropy$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $36,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $14,474 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetERITREAN CULTURAL AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetDAVE MCGILLIVRAY FINISH STRONG FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMFAR HIGH SCHOOL MARATHON: $6,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,079 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

American Online Givin…
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.3× affinity5 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Meb Maintaining Excellent Balance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meb Maintaining Excellent Balance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to The Meb Maintaining Excellent Balance Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Meb Maintaining Excellent Balance Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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