· Private foundation
The Meridian Foundation Inc
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 $10k9 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $37,500 |
| BRUNSWICK-GOLDEN ISLES CHAMBER FND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CHATHAM TRANSITIONAL MINISTRIES | $3,214 |
| SE BULLOCH HIGH SCHOOL | $1,300 |
| LOOP IT UP SAVANNAH | $700 |
| THE SAVANNAH CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $500 |
| AMVETS | $200 |
| CHILDREN'S CIRCUS PROJECT | $200 |
| THE WES FOUNDATION | $181 |
| COMBAT RECOVERY FOUNDATION | $42 |
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 (FY18–24, $892) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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 +78% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 5 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- SCSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $349k · revenue +107%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE4× · 2017–2020 · $49k · revenue +10%
- GSGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $29k
- FFFUNK-ZITTELLO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
Volunteer fire & emergency services to protect the community.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
A non-profit corporation that provides shelter for homeless men and women in savannah, georgia.
Southern Comfort Animal Rescue, Inc. is 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that rescues and rehomes abused, unwanted and abandoned companion animals.Southern Comfort was founded in 2001 in Savannah, Georgia, to provide shelter and find…
Safe Harbor's mission is to provide services that promote security and stability for at-risk families, children and individuals.
Saving southern kitties mission is to save cats and kittens from high kill animal controls, house them in team foster homes, provide quality veterinary care and adopt them into forever homes.
To promote the health and happiness of children impacted by abuse. We are committed to building successful children by providing programs that ensure their safety, advocate on their behalf and respond to meet their needs.
Crime stoppers allows people an opportunity to provide information on crime and criminals anonymously.
Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire and the most unlike its peers is My Kind of Dad Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 77 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 SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING VINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE 200 CLUB OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Chatham Transitional Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER SAVANNAH ↗
- Who funds Veritas Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Hope Box Inc ↗
- Who funds PARK PLACE OUTREACHINC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals 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: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · John and Emma Derst Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good
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 Meridian Foundation Inc 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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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