· Private foundation
The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $463k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $51,000 |
| COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY | $50,500 |
| TURNEFFE ATOLL TRUST | $50,000 |
| HPU FUND FOR EXTRAORDINARY EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| SPRING ISLAND TRUST | $50,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD | $32,455 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST | $30,000 |
| BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MOULTRIE MIDDLE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS | $17,543 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- CSCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY8× · 2017–2024 · $426k · revenue +9%
- SISPRING ISLAND TRUST6× · 2019–2024 · $340k · revenue +61%
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $281k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CCCoastal Conservation Leagueone grant, 2017 · $30k
- IAINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -62%
- OSOPEN SPACE INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hartford Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
91 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. 91 of the 136 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 COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ABC INC OF NEW CANAAN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ONE BECKHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Main Street Inc ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY OPEN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CAUMSETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLENADA CASINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · The Joanna Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · Magnolia Plantation Foundation · Trident United Way · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Post and Courier 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 Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- International Game Fish Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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