· Private foundation
The Meek Family Foundation Co Mercer Advisors
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of THE MEEK FAMILY FOUNDATION CO MERCER ADVISORS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ST ALOYSIUS CHURCH | $25,000 |
| BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES THE DIOCESE OF B | $15,000 |
| BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| FRONT YARD BIKES | $5,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| NEELY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| CHAPEL OF THE HOLY CROSS LUTHERAN C | $3,000 |
| HOSPICE OF BATON ROUGE | $3,000 |
| DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE OFFICE STEWA | $3,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMEL | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 70% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC6× · 2018–2024 · $121k · revenue +43%
- HMHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE6× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +56%
- THTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE6× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- CFCHS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $40k
- CACAPITAL AREA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +35%
- DMDOUGLAS MANSHIP SR THEATRE COMPLEX HOLDING INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -4%
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 strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
Caas mission is to create and maintain a compassionate and safe community for pets and people by serving as a welcoming community resource for animal welfare in east baton rouge parish.
To alleviate hunger in central louisiana
To promote architecture.
Our mission is to feed the hungry in baton rouge and the surrounding parishes by providing food and educational outreach through faith-based and other community partners.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
Construct homes for low-income families.
Rendering health care services in rural areas, mainly to indigent care patients
To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
Drive solutions to common issues with an emphasis on workforce development and safety performance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge and the most unlike its peers is Front Yard Bikes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS MANSHIP SR THEATRE COMPLEX HOLDING INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ART & SCIENCE MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds FRONT YARD BIKES ↗
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: The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Pennington Family Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Meek Family Foundation Co Mercer Advisors 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
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.