· Private foundation
The Meredith 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Illinois Foundation | $60,000 |
| New Mexico Philharmonic | $40,000 |
| WETA | $40,000 |
| New Mexico Symphonic Chorus | $35,000 |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $30,000 |
| Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival | $30,000 |
| Peoria Symphony Orchestra | $30,000 |
| Signature Theater | $25,000 |
| Cathedral Choral Society | $20,000 |
| KHFM | $20,000 |
| The Washington Chorus | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra | $15,000 |
| The Reston Chorale | $10,000 |
| Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of your 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +14%
- NMNEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC INC3× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +10%
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- BSBelvedere Seriesgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +263%
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.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
The baltimore symphony orchestra's (bso) mission is to promote, organize, manage and maintain a symphony orchestra for the city of baltimore and the state of maryland and to hold, sponsor, and present musical concerts by the baltimore…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
The Chorale's mission is to create a rich cultural experience for the community by performing high-quality concerts that showcase well-known pieces and also introduce our audiences to compelling new works.
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
To provide orchestral music performances, educational services, and arts advocacy programs to the greater silicon valley region.
To continually redefine the way our community experiences and engages with classical music
The mission of the cincinnati symphony orchestra is to seek and share inspiration.
To engage the community by providing accessible, quality musical performances that entertain, educate and inspire.
To advise, support and oversee the continued artistic quality of the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts' national symphony orchestra program.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Philharmonic Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Illinois Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 18 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 GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SYMPHONIC CHORUS ↗
- Who funds PEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN GENERAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds The Washington Chorus Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RESTON CHORALE ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE YOUTH SYMPHONY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Belvedere Series ↗
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: Firestone Family Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Meredith 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.