How much does The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation give?

The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $376,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (38%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (18%).

Who are The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Forterra Nw ($168k), League of Conservation Voters Education Fund ($120k), Climate Generation ($105k).

Does The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, San Juan Island Community Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.

Where is The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation based?

The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation is based in DE.

The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation

The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$377k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$876kArts & Culture$525kEducation$429kInternational$70kRecreation & Sports$66kCrime & Legal$55kPhilanthropy$46kHealth$44kOther$0

02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k45 grants · $192k
$10k–50k10 grants · $185k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FORTERRA NW	$35,000
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES	$30,000
EARTHJUSTICE	$25,000
ALCHEMY ART CENTER	$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION	$15,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART	$15,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND	$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION	$10,000
CATHARINE LORILLARD WOLFE ART CLUB INC	$10,000
CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND	$10,000
THE CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC	$8,000
CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC	$7,500
SAN JUAN ISLANDS MUSEUM OF ART	$7,500
FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC	$7,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN	$5,500

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 59 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+17%

Still filing today

93%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

LO
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND
9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +353%
MM
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +76%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
5× · 2019–2023 · $90k · revenue +32%

Funded once

Save The Children Federation Inc
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -13%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $20k
TP
THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL
one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%

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.

04Its field

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Every Org. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 114 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

101/102

Grantees still filing

59/102

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$719,500Arts & Culture$481,100Other$581,250Education$310,800International$94,500Philanthropy$82,000Recreation & Sports$63,000

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA31.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · San Juan Island Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · The Stocker Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Patagoniaorg · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Family Foundation · The Mary See Foundation

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 Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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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