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The Meil Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Meil Family Foundation Inc

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.

$157k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$137k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$741kAnimals$51kEducation$15kHuman Services$9kFood & Nutrition$3kHousing & Shelter$2kArts & Culture$2kEmployment$2k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $137k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$412k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION$137,050
SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AND MEDICINE$3,000
MONTGOMERY HOSPICE FOUNDATION$2,500
MEDICAL CARE FOR CHILDREN PARTNERSHIP$2,000
KIPP JAX PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LEGACY FARMS: $2k → 4%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$810k · 14 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$810k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+53%

Still filing today

64%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterAnimalsHuman 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

  • AC
    ADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $658k · revenue +11%
  • TI
    The Ivymount School Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +27%
  • BI
    BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +577%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDRENS HOSPITAL NATIONAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k
  • LF
    LEGACY FARMS
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +1%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +53%
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.

1
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
6
Suburban Hospital Inc

Suburban hospital will deliver superior healthcare enhanced by technology, wellness education, research, and innovative partnerships with physicians, hospitals, the community, and the national institutes of health. mission: improving…

Health
7
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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8
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
9
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
10
Children's National

Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.

Health
11
Medstar Health Research Institute Inc

See schedule omedstar health research institute is dedicated to supporting the academic platform of medstar health by conducting high quality translational and health sciences research throughout the medstar system.

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12
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Braws Bringing Resources to Aid Women's Shelters. 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION: $657,575 · HealthADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $33,000 · Health+3 more: $7,000 · HealthMEDICAL CARE FOR CHILDREN PARTNERSHIP: $19,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $14,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherARC OF LOUDON COUNTY: $5,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $4,000 · OtherKIPP JAX PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,000 · OtherSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $51,000 · AnimalsThe Ivymount School Inc: $7,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionBRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterLEGACY FARMS: $2,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$697,575Other$54,000Animals$51,000Education$13,000Food & Nutrition$3,000Housing & Shelter$2,000Human Services$2,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION: $657,575 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $51,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ivymount School Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEGACY FARMS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Ivymount School Inc ↗
  • Who funds BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY FARMS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗

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.

Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Meil Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meil Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–20%
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.

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 20 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-PF 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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