· Private foundation
The Meek Family Foundation Co Mercer Advisors
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MATTHEW 25 FUND | $3,000 |
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 70% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC6× · 2018–2024 · $121k · revenue +42%
- 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%
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 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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Meek Family Foundation Co Mercer Advisors funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meek Family Foundation Co Mercer Advisors. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
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