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The Mey Share Foundation Inc 217-48341110

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.

$695k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

International$725kEnvironment$670kAnimals$385kFood & Nutrition$310kHuman Services$215kHealth$207kCivil Rights$183kArts & Culture$132kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $350k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$50,000
EARTHJUSTICE$50,000
CHARITY GLOBAL INC$50,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$50,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION$50,000
SHELTER BOX USA$50,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION$50,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES$35,000
THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND$25,000
PEDIATRIC EPILEPSY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM$25,000
FOOD BANK OF THE HUDSON VALLEY$25,000
CITY HARVEST$25,000
RIVERKEEPER INC$25,000
THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TR USA$25,000
SEA TURTLE CONSERVANCY$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $480k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 9%CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE: $10k → 14%SHELTER BOX USA: $50k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $20k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 9%MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER: $10k → 14%SHELTER BOX USA: $50k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $20k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 9%SHELTER BOX USA: $50k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 9%SHELTER BOX USA: $50k → 9%SHELTER BOX USA: $30k → 9%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $50k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $30k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $25k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $25k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 26 repeat orgs$336k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
22

Total granted

$2.8M
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+20%

Still filing today

81%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

  • SU
    SHELTERBOX USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +34%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +16%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SR
    SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -8%
  • A
    ARTSFUND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +5%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +47%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
8
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
11
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Barrel Bag. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Women & Girls Leadership De…Lgbtq+ Community SupportDomestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%46%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,520

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
27/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCSave The Children Federation Inc — $180,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federat…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $130,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCSea Turtle Conservancy — $80,000 · InternationalSea Turtle ConservancyMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $70,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES …International Rescue Committee INC — $25,000 · International+1 more — $20,000 · InternationalEARTHJUSTICE — $220,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICENATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $220,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFE…RIVERKEEPER INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER INC+3 more — $25,000 · EnvironmentSHELTERBOX USA INC — $230,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA IN…CHARITY GLOBAL INC — $155,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL IN…4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $40,000 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR ABILIT…GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR …+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TR USA — $125,000 · OtherTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILD…GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $70,000 · OtherGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOU…NATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION INC — $35,000 · OtherTHE ORANGUTAN PROJECT — $35,000 · OtherTHEATER WITHIN — $25,500 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY — $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $125,000 · OtherTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMER…EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $35,000 · OtherARTSFUND — $25,000 · Other+14 more — $143,500 · Other+14 moreCITY HARVEST INC — $160,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST…REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $150,000 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOO…RESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Food & NutritionRESTAURANT W…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Civil RightsWE THE PROTESTERS INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $61,600 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $30,000 · HealthSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND — $25,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC EPILEPSY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC — $25,000 · HealthTHE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Health
International$705,000Environment$615,000Human Services$480,000Other$669,000Food & Nutrition$340,000Civil Rights$160,000Health$151,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $230,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $220,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $220,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $180,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $160,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSea Turtle Conservancy — $80,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $61,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEDIATRIC EPILEPSY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetARTSFUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRIVE CHANGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWE THE PROTESTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBarrel Bag — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK LUNCH TABLE — $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE ASHER HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Express Foun…The Ford FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…AbbVie FoundationNetwork for GoodNational Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
American Express FoundationNY16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Mey Share Foundation Inc 217-48341110 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The Mey Share Foundation Inc 217-48341110?

Find your warmest path to The Mey Share Foundation Inc 217-48341110 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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