Oklahoma · Private foundation
The Meinders Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $69k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of The Meinders Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 21 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Meinders Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $69k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,920
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Meinders Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $64k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $159k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $206k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $165k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $274k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation | $6,253,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Oklahoma City University | $4,148,360 | 6 | 3% |
| Crossings Community Church | $2,005,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Christian University | $2,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Concordia Seminary | $1,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Concordia University | $1,500,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Concordia Theological Seminary | $1,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| On With Life Inc | $1,050,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($10.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Meinders Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Sarkeys Foundation · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · The Ann Lacy Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc
How this is measured
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About The Meinders Foundation
- How much does The Meinders Foundation give?
- The Meinders Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $69,101 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Meinders Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Health (24%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Meinders Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ($6.3M), Oklahoma City University ($4.1M), Crossings Community Church ($2.0M).
- Does The Meinders Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Meinders Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Meinders Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation, Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, American Fidelity Foundation.
- Where is The Meinders Foundation based?
- The Meinders Foundation is based in OK.
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