· Private foundation
The Meredith 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Illinois Foundation | $60,000 |
| New Mexico Philharmonic | $45,000 |
| New Mexico Symphonic Chorus | $35,000 |
| Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival | $30,000 |
| Peoria Symphony Orchestra | $30,000 |
| KHFM | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Signature Theater | $20,000 |
| Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program | $15,000 |
| Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra | $15,000 |
| Belvedere | $10,000 |
| The Washington Chorus | $10,000 |
| The Reston Chorale | $10,000 |
| New Dominion Choraliers | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- NMNEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC INC4× · 2022–2025 · $190k · revenue +10%
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +14%
University of Illinois Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $145k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- BSBelvedere Seriesgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +263%
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.
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.
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 further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…
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…
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
To continually redefine the way our community experiences and engages with classical music
To engage the community by providing accessible, quality musical performances that entertain, educate and inspire.
Anderson symphony orchestra enriches lives through beautiful music of high artistic quality and provides experiences that excite, entertain,engage, and educate our community. we are committed to offering the community a diverse repertoire…
The mission of the cincinnati symphony orchestra is to seek and share inspiration.
How this is measured
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 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SYMPHONIC CHORUS ↗
- Who funds PEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- 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 ↗
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: Firestone Family Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Meredith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meredith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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